Austria opens police station at Hitler's birthplace in Braunau am Inn

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Austria has opened a police station in the house at Salzburger Vorstadt 15 in Braunau am Inn where Adolf Hitler was born in April 1889, converting the 17th-century former inn after years of debate. The government seized the building under a 2016 law, paying former owner Gerlinde Pommer €812,000 after long negotiations and a failed court challenge, and launched an EU-wide architecture competition in 2019 before spending millions on refurbishment and altering the facade. The site previously housed a local charity, Lebenshilfe, which left in 2011 when renovations were blocked and has not returned; local historian Florian Kotanko said the charity did not want to be used as a political fig leaf. Interior minister Wolfgang Sobotka had once proposed tearing the house down, a plan that drew criticism for appearing to deny Austria's Nazi past. The renovated building has no sign explaining its history, features security cameras to deter potential neo-Nazi pilgrims, and the only explicit link to the past is a 1989 street stone from the Mauthausen camp reading "Never again Fascism; In memory of millions of dead."

Al Jazeera English

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Austrian politicians hope the change will prevent neo-Nazis from visiting the building as a place of pilgrimage.

1092h ago

Miley Crisis. ✨22

Instead now they get to work there

DEMOCRACY DIVA7

A big lie Everyone knows a lot of nazis are cops, it’s where they get their fix for feeling powerful over others

David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙6

Tbh, this seems more like an obstacle to neo-Nazis getting their steps in

Massão do Rafa 🫟5

It should be a museum of the russian winter. There's nothing a nazi fears more than the russian winter.

(╯°□°)╯︵ ∀IW4

So they turned it from a fascist shrine to a fascist laboratory. Good, good

🍉 boomservice2

Why hasn't it been taken down 50 y ago already? 75 y ago? 137 y ago?

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SMD57

i have bad news about neo-nazis and the police

MisterJayEm11

Now they will visit it as a place of employment

Belmiro6

Vamos evitar peregrinações neonazistas transformando a casa do Hitler em delegacia. Quanto tempo até estourar o escândalo da célula de policiais neonazistas na casa do Hitler?

Karissa Barrows3

Does Austria know any cops???

👹ToterFisch on the River Styx👹🔞3

the spawn point of history's most well known authoritarian being turned into an artifice of state power is just another one of those "god is a hack writer and his creation is probably plagiarized" moments that seems to happen every other minute these days

Smilner, Renowned Actor3

Hey, I've got some bad news for Austria about police. You might wanna sit down for this, but...

Json Momoa2

I can see a lot of neo-nazi enlisting to the police academy in the near future

Reuters

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Hitler's birthplace begins new life as a police station reut.rs/4wjcrdi

323h ago

Goldstein (2026 edition) Vamos Vamos Vargentina!13

If the fascists lost, how come Hitler's birthplace got turned into a landmark for fascism?

@Julianshea.bsky.social3

Great to see that they're moving away from that whole men in uniforms thing. Oh.

adjala_butterfly 🇨🇦2

Why wouldn’t they have just torn this building down?

elruben.bsky.social2

How appropriate, thin blue line goes Nazi.

Skuzy2

“Not everyone is happy with the decision to open a police station there, saying it sends the wrong signal.” The worst choice that could’ve been made. Every officer who works there will be choosing to work there because of its connection to Hitler. Which isn’t a good thing.

Marilyn Difficult Shepherd1

The man has been dead for over 80 years

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Jack Kennedy104

I guess it's technically true that it can't be a place the far-right make pilgrimages to if they're just already inside all the time

Unmanned Systems Forces of the City of Troy 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿72

come on bro the jokes just write themselves here

❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆16

I like how they grappled with weighty issues about remembrance (make it a museum) vs. erasure & renewal (demolish it), and despite all that somehow landed on police station www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dr Jo Kershaw15

I don’t understand why they don’t knock it down, frankly (and ideally replace it with a memorial to the victims of the Nazis)

𝕱𝕽𝕰𝖄𝕵𝕬10

I am policeman from Austria and this is my workplace

Markwayne Carney ☭10

Same as the old life

Tube Amps for Justice5

appropriate, a symbol of fascism becomes a home for fascists

Gem3

Home of Nazi Becomes Nazi's Home

Terminally von der Leyen

@ciaran.operationglad.io

Modern Austrian police stations are famously completely free of Nazi links

281h ago

Goldstein (2026 edition) Vamos Vamos Vargentina!

@goldstein.bsky.social

So the fascists turned Hitler's birthplace into a living museum for fascism.

132h ago

Julia Leggs📎I'm🏳️‍⚧️&🇬🇧.I support🇺🇦NATO🇺🇳💙 I'm in the UK🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.🇬🇧Veteran

@julialeggs.bsky.social

BBC News - Police station opens at Hitler's birthplace in bid to rid site of Nazi link www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

32h ago

Abbiistabbii

@abbiistabbii.bsky.social

The birthplace of a man who led an authoritarian Police State becomes a Police station.

31h ago

Continent Sentinel

@continentsentinel.bsky.social

Austria turns Hitler’s birthplace into police station https://www.europesays.com/3146342/ The house where Adolf Hitler was born in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn will be turned…

17h ago

CNA - Channel News Asia (Unofficial)

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Hitler's Austrian birthplace to become a police station - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/hitler-birthplace-police-station-austrian-6269741

110h ago

Ultimora.net

@ultimoranet.bsky.social

La casa natale di Adolf Hitler a Braunau am Inn, piccolo centro austriaco al confine con la Germania, è diventata ufficialmente una stazione di polizia su decisione del governo di Vienna, con l'obiettivo di scoraggiare i movimenti neonazisti dall'utilizzare l'edificio come luogo di pellegrinaggio...

31h ago

Jack Kennedy

@jackkennedy.ie

On the flipside, the state of Brandenburg putting a police training college in a former SS barracks beside a former concentration camp is actually worse than Austria making Hitler's house a police station. Much worse

21h ago

Skuzy

@skuzy1572.bsky.social

21h ago

Unofficial CTV News Mirror

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Hitler: Birthplace is now police station to deter Nazi pilgrimages

1h ago

Oscar Zeta Gundam

@lmfsilva.bsky.social

In six months: "Austrian police chief baffled by number of transfer requests to Braunau am Inn"

21h ago

Charles Martin-Shields

@charlesmartinshields.com

Turning Hitler’s birthplace into a police station is some next level missing the point. “We’ll finally make the police-state history go away by making it…a police station.” Austria really hates the idea of dealing with how enthusiastic they were about the NS regime. www.bbc.com/news/article...

13h ago

Ghost Coast.

@spectralthrum.eurosky.social

"There sure do seem to be a *lot* of transfer requests regarding that police station in Braunau-am-Inn."

15h ago

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