The Austrian town of Braunau announced Friday it was annulling honorary titles granted to native son Adolf Hitler, following a scandal in the country over surviving honours from the Nazi era.
The city council voted unanimously in favour of the decision Thursday with the backing of all five main political parties, according to a statement.
An honorary title given to Hitler in 1938 by the small town of Ranshofen, which was later incorporated into Braunau -- Hitler's birthplace -- was thereby annulled.
So-called "rights of residence" in Braunau have also been quashed and although research in the city's archives did not turn up any other honorary titles, these have also been "symbolically and preemptively" abolished, the council said.
"The city council of Braunau hereby sent a clear and unequivocal sign and assumed its historical and political responsibility," Mayor Johannes Waidbacher said in the statement.
The council also distanced itself from any actions taken by its predecessors during the Nazi period.
Earlier this year, surviving honorary titles in a few Austrian towns sparked controversy, putting the far-right Freedom Party in the hot seat as it argued the titles disappeared by Hitler's death and the end of World War II and that no action needed to be taken to abolish them.