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Police station opens at Hitler's birthplace to curb neo-Nazi tourism

A car passes Adolf Hitler's birth house in Braunau, Austria, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. (Matthias Schrader/AP)
Matthias Schrader/AP
A car passes Adolf Hitler's birth house in Braunau, Austria, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. (Matthias Schrader/AP)

In the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn, a new police station has opened at the birthplace of Adolf Hitler in an attempt to stop neo-Nazis visiting it as a pilgrimage site.

For more on this latest development and the continued issues with neo-Nazi tourists, Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks to the Guardian’s Berlin correspondent Deborah Cole.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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