In an attempt to prevent Nazi pilgramages to Hitler's birth house, Austrian authorities have taken the house under eminent domain and turned it into a police station.
This is wrong.
They should have demolished the house and left a hole in the ground.
Austria has opened a police station in the house where Adolf Hitler was born in the town of Braunau am Inn.
It follows years of controversy about what to do with the 17th-Century former inn, where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was born in April 1889.
The building has now been substantially refurbished and its facade changed, but it has been a huge headache for Austrian authorities, who want to prevent it from becoming a site of neo-Nazi pilgrimage.
Hitler only lived in Salzburger Vorstadt 15 for a few weeks before his family moved to another address in Braunau. They left the town for good when he was three years old.
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The opening ceremony for the police station, featuring police musicians playing a tuba and other brass instruments, was attended by Interior Minister Gerhard Karner and other local dignitaries.
Austria was taking "responsibility" for the "terrible legacy" of the past, said Karner. While deciding what to do with the building had not been easy, Karner believed the police station marked "a new chapter" for it.
If you were not going to turn it into a hole into the ground, then turn it into a museum of the Ramani.
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