The yellow house is 800 m wide.2Adolf Hitler's birthplace in the northern Austrian town of Braunau, near the border with Germany, will soon become a police station. "The fact that the house is being used by the police sends a clear signal that it will never be a place to commemorate Nazism," Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Peschorn said in a press release on November 19.
The house is a destination for tourists and fascists alike.
The authorities will hold an EU-wide competition to find the best design to turn the house into a police station. The competition jury will include experts and representatives of the town. The winner will be announced in the first half of next year.
Although Hitler only lived in the house for a short time, it attracted many Nazi sympathizers from around the world. Every year, on Hitler's birthday, April 20, anti-fascist protesters hold meetings outside the building. The Austrian Interior Ministry once considered demolishing it, but the plan was met with opposition from politicians and historians.
Fascist meetings/demonstrations were held in front of Hitler's house.
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Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945), an Austrian-born German, was Chairman of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) from 1921, Chancellor of Germany from 1933, "Leader and Chancellor of the Reich" (Führer und Reichskanzler) and head of state of the German Empire from 1934.
Hitler established the Third Reich's national social monopoly, banned all opposition parties, and murdered his opponents. Hitler caused World War II and systematically promoted the disenfranchisement and murder of approximately 6 million European Jews and a number of other racial, religious, and political groups known as the Holocaust.
