(JNS) Work began on Monday to transform Adolf Hitler’s childhood home in Austria into a police station, with laborers putting up fencing and taking measurements, according to the Associated Press.
Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in the town of Braunau am Inn in modern-day Austria, and lived there until the age of three.
In 2016, Vienna took control of the building in a bid to prevent it from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine. Disseminating Nazi propaganda is a criminal offense in Austria.
The expropriation came after years of legal wrangling with the building’s longtime owner, Gerlinde Pommer, who had been renting the property to the Interior Ministry since the 1970s and refused to sell or adequately maintain it.
