Redesign
Work begins on Hitler House in Braunau
Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Braunau is to be rebuilt. photo
© Matthias Röder/dpa
The house is often used as a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis. To prevent this, Adolf Hitler’s birthplace should become a police school. Not everyone is happy with the plans.
The redesign is intended to prevent neo-Nazis from visiting the area on the border with Bavaria as a place of pilgrimage. The house in which the future Nazi dictator was born in 1889 is to be externally changed with two new gables by 2025.
Various suggestions for use
From 2026, the state-owned building will be used as a police station and for human rights training for police officers. Various groups have criticized this plan and suggested other approaches. Most recently, the Holocaust memorial association suggested that Friends of Yad Vashem install a permanent exhibition in the Hitler House about people who saved Jews from Nazi persecution.
The Interior Ministry rejected this and instead suggested showing the show in various police stations. The reason for the rejection was, among other things, safety concerns.