The then Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Sobotka, stated that the building should be demolished and a new one erected in its place. It was an echo of an earlier offer from a Russian MP who said he wanted to buy the house and blow it up.

But there was a storm of criticism, with many saying that destroying the house would be tantamount to denying Austria’s Nazi past.

In 2019, the government announced plans to turn it into a police station and launched an EU-wide competition for architects to submit designs.

Millions of euros were spent renovating the old yellow building, which now looks very different from before.

Not everyone is happy with the decision to open a police station there as it sends the wrong signal.

Some wanted the house to become a center of accountability, confronting the Nazi past. Others, like local historian Florian Kotanko, say they would have liked to see the Lebenshilfe charity return.

“But even this charity didn’t want to come back because they thought they would be used as a fig leaf for a political discussion, so the government had to decide differently,” Kotanko told the BBC.

There is no sign on the house about its history and the building has security cameras to record the activities of possible neo-Nazi pilgrims.

The only thing that links him to Hitler is a stone in the street, erected in 1989.

It says: “Never more fascism; in memory of millions of dead.”

The stone comes from the nearby former concentration camp of Mauthausen.

Hitler’s name does not appear. However, Florian Kotanko believes that the site’s history will never disappear, even if fewer neo-Nazis visit it.

“You have to face it, and that’s why we all try to do it openly and correctly. It’s not a question of being proud, but of facing the fact.”