Law Which Permits Sale Of House Where Hitler Was Born, Has Been Passed By Politicians In Austria..

Hitler’s family rented rooms in the three-story building in Braunau am Inn at the time of his birth in 1889, although they moved elsewhere in the northern Austrian town a few weeks later.For a number of decades the former guesthouse was rented by the Austrian interior ministry from owner Gerlinde Pommer in a bid to stop it becoming a pilgrimage for neo-Nazis, with uses including a charity day centre.

But Ms Pommer refused to allow renovations - forcing the charity to move out - or sell it. The bill passed last night (Wednesday) by Austria’s lower house of parliament allowing a compulsory purchase of the building does not specify what will happen to it, although interior minister Wolfgang Sobotka has said the government supports recommendations for a “thorough architectural rearrangement”. Locals have reported visitors travelling to the building from many countries. “I’ve even witnessed people from Italy or from France coming here… for adoration purposes,” Josef Kogler, a teacher in Braunau, told the BBC.“One Frenchman, a history teacher I think it was, came and asked me for Hitler’s birthplace… It’s hard to understand.”