Hitler's Austrian birthplace to become a police station

BRAUNAU AM INN, AUSTRIA: Austria will formally open a new police station on Wednesday (Jul 22) in Adolf Hitler's former house, in the hope of deterring today's ascendant far-right extremists from making the pilgrimage to the Nazi dictator's birthplace.The authorities hope that its transformation will bring to an end a long and delicate debate over what to do with the site, in a country often criticised for not taking full responsibility for its role in the Holocaust.After a 20 million euro (US$22.8 million) refurbishment finished three years behind schedule, the unassuming building where one of history's most notorious figures was born in the centre of the town of Braunau-am-Inn is all but unrecognisable.The roughcast yellow walls of the 17th-century home near the German border, where the