Cost of turning Hitler birthplace into police station soars

13/01/2023

The budget to convert the building where Hitler was born into a police station has spiraled amid delays and building material shortages.

The cost of converting the birthplace of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler into a police station has soared to four times the original budget, officials said on Friday.

The controversial project was decided upon three years ago to prevent the house in the small Austrian town of Braunau am Inn from becoming a sanctuary for neo-Nazi groups and right-wing extremists.
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A new estimate of the cost of the work is some €20 million (roughly $21.6 million), much more expensive than initially planned, according to the Austrian Interior Ministry.

The project, agreed upon by a commission of experts as the best plan for the building, had an initial budget of €5 million. That sum was already increased once, less than a year ago —*to €11 million.

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