Revamping controversial historical sites: Hitler's birth home to be turned into police station

The building where Adolf Hitler was born, in Austria, is opening as a police station after decades of debate. Authorities say the move aims to stop neo-Nazis from using the house as a site of pilgrimage.

Al Jazeera's Rebecca Collard reports from Berlin that it's part of a bigger debate in Europe about what to do with historical sites from the Nazi era.

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