Austria turns Hitler birthplace into police station amid debate
Turning the house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station has raised mixed emotions in his Austrian hometown.
'It's a double-edged sword,' said Sibylle Treiblmaier, outside the house in the town of Braunau am Inn on the border with Germany.
While it might discourage far-right extremists from gathering at the site, it could have 'been used better or differently', the 53-year-old office assistant told AFP.
The government wants to 'neutralise' the site and passed a law in 2016 to take control of the dilapidated building from its private owner.
The house where Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, and lived for a short period of his early life, is right in the centre of town on a narrow shop-lined street.
TRT
Turning the house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station has raised mixed emotions in his Austrian hometown.
'It's a double-edged sword,' said Sibylle Treiblmaier, outside the house in the town of Braunau am Inn on the border with Germany.
While it might discourage far-right extremists from gathering at the site, it could have 'been used better or differently', the 53-year-old office assistant told AFP.
The government wants to 'neutralise' the site and passed a law in 2016 to take control of the dilapidated building from its private owner.
The house where Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, and lived for a short period of his early life, is right in the centre of town on a narrow shop-lined street.
TRT
Turning the house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station has raised mixed emotions in his Austrian hometown.
'It's a double-edged sword,' said Sibylle Treiblmaier, outside the house in the town of Braunau am Inn on the border with Germany.
While it might discourage far-right extremists from gathering at the site, it could have 'been used better or differently', the 53-year-old office assistant told AFP.
The government wants to 'neutralise' the site and passed a law in 2016 to take control of the dilapidated building from its private owner.
The house where Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, and lived for a short period of his early life, is right in the centre of town on a narrow shop-lined street.
TRT
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Austria turns Hitler birthplace into police station amid debate
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