Austria turns Hitler's first home into police station, a move opposed by Holocaust survivors group

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The building Adolf Hitler was born in near the Austrian border with Germany officially begins a new life as a police station on Wednesday, a conversion Austria's government ‌hopes will prevent it serving as a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis.

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