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The building where Adolf Hitler was born, near the Austrian border with Germany, officially began a new life as a police station on Wednesday, a conversion Austria’s government hopes will prevent it serving as a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis.
鄰近與德國接壤的奧地利邊界，阿道夫．希特勒出生的寓所，週三正式以警察局之姿重獲新生。奧地利政府期盼此次轉型得以防止該建築做為新納粹份子的聖地。
After years of debate about the large, traditional terraced house in the town of Braunau am Inn, which was in private ownership and had housed a charity for people with disabilities, Austria made a compulsory purchase in 2017 and announced in 2019 it would be remodelled and turned into a police station.
這座位於茵河畔布勞瑙的大型傳統排屋原屬私人產權，曾用於提供身障人士服務的慈善事業。經歷數年辯論後，奧地利2017年強制徵收，2019年宣布重新整修並轉型為警察局。
"The aim was to prevent any association with Adolf Hitler, so as to strip it of that mystique," the head of the Austrian interior ministry’s history department, Stephan Mlczoch, told reporters on a tour of the building.
奧地利內政部歷史部門主管史蒂芬．姆克佐赫向媒體介紹該棟建築時表示，「（轉型）目標是要避免與希特勒的任何聯繫，藉此剝除其中的神秘感。」
新聞辭典
conversion：名詞，轉型、轉換。例句：The conversion of traditional houses into modern buildings was successful.（傳統房舍成功改建為現代建築。）
compulsory：形容詞，強制的、義務的。例句：People strongly opposed this compulsory measure limiting online speech.（人們強烈反對這項限制網路言論的強制措施。）
