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Austria to turn Adolf Hitler's birthplace into police station
Source: Agence France-Presse
Austria to turn Adolf Hitler's birthplace into police station
AFP in Vienna
Tue 19 Nov 2019 21.32 GMT
The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station, Austria’s interior ministry has announced, after years of legal wrangling as the government looks to prevent the building from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
The yellow corner house in the northern town of Braunau on the border with Germany, where Hitler was born on 20 April 1889, was taken into government control in 2016.
But the destiny of the building was subject to a lengthy legal battle with the family of Gerlinde Pommer, which owned the house for nearly a century.
That only ended this year when the country’s highest court ruled on the compensation Pommer would receive.
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AFP in Vienna
Tue 19 Nov 2019 21.32 GMT
The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station, Austria’s interior ministry has announced, after years of legal wrangling as the government looks to prevent the building from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
The yellow corner house in the northern town of Braunau on the border with Germany, where Hitler was born on 20 April 1889, was taken into government control in 2016.
But the destiny of the building was subject to a lengthy legal battle with the family of Gerlinde Pommer, which owned the house for nearly a century.
That only ended this year when the country’s highest court ruled on the compensation Pommer would receive.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/19/austria-to-turn-adolf-hitlers-birthplace-into-police-station
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