Austria's vice chancellor has said a member of his party will resign after penning a poem that compared migrants to rats, drawing widespread criticism and angering Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.

The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be torn down and replaced with a new building that has no association with the Nazi dictator, Austria's government has announced.

Three children are recovering in hospital after Austrian police stopped a truck near Braunau, on the German border, with 26 people from Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh crammed inside.

The Government of Austra is looking at options that would allow it to expropriate the house where Adolf Hitler spent his early childhood as it seeks to end a dispute with the owner over its use.

ADOLF HITLER is now formally persona non grata in the town of his birth.

Adolf Hitler is now formally persona non grata in the town of his birth.