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The yellow-painted house is 800 square meters.2The birthplace of Adolf Hitler in the town of Braunau, in northern Austria near the border with Germany, will soon be converted into 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 both tourists and fascists.
Authorities will hold an EU-wide competition to find the best design to transform a house into a police station. The judging panel will include experts and town representatives. 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 supporters from around the world. Every year, on Hitler's birthday, April 20th, anti-Nazi protesters hold a meeting outside the building. The Austrian Interior Ministry once considered demolishing it, but the plan faced opposition from politicians and historians.
Meetings and demonstrations by fascists were held in front of Hitler's house.
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Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), a German of Austrian descent, was Chairman of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) from 1921, Chancellor of Germany from 1933, and "Leader and Chancellor of the Empire" (Führer und Reichskanzler) and Head of State of the German Empire from 1934.
Hitler established the totalitarian state of socialism in the Third Reich, banning all opposition parties and killing opponents. Hitler caused World War II, systematically promoting the dispossession and murder of approximately 6 million European Jews and other racial, religious, and political groups, known as the Holocaust.
