Turning the house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station has raised mixed emotions in his Austrian hometown. "It's a double-edged sword," said Sibylle Treiblmaier, outside the house in the town of Braunau am Inn on the border with Germany. While it might discourage far-right extremists from gathering at the site, it could have "been used better or differently", the 53-year-old office assistant told.

The government wants to "neutralise" the site and passed a law in 2016 to take control of the dilapidated building from its private owner. The far-right Freedom Party, founded by former Nazis, is ahead in the polls after getting the most votes in a national election for the first time in 2024, though it failed to form a government. Last year, two streets in Braunau am Inn commemorating Nazis were renamed after years of complaints by activists.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)