HITLER HOME TO BE REDESIGNED AS POLICE STATION

VIENNA Austria presented an architectural plan on Tuesday to turn the house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station in the hope of “neutralizing” the space and ensuring it does not attract neo-nazis.

After decades of debate about what to do with the building in the town of Braunau am Inn on the German border, Austria carried out a compulsory purchase in 2017 and said last year it would be turned into police offices so that it “will never again evoke the memory of National Socialism.”

“It is the most appropriate use (for the building). Why? The police are the protector of fundamental rights and freedoms,” Interior Minister Karl Nehammer, pictured, told a news conference.

There is little to indicate that the building was once home to the boy who would become leader of the Third Reich, trigger the Second World War and carry out the Holocaust. An engraved rock on the pavement says “Fascism never again” without mentioning Hitler by name.