Austria’s Constitutional Court has upheld the law that permits the compulsory purchase of the house<br />in which Adolf Hitler was born.<br /><br />Authorities want to prevent the property in Braunau am Inn, becoming a neo-Nazi shrine and place of pillgramidge.<br /><br />Austrian court: State seizure of Hitler’s home lawful https://t.co/HBR19JGDZa via dwnews #BraunauamInn #Austria pic.twitter.com/UZLVBkVCub— Paul Harris (pathrs) June 30, 2017<br /><br />The owner Gerlinde Pommer appealed against the parliament’s vote for a compulsory purchase order she argued that the building could be transformed without being seized by the state.<br /><br />Austrian authorities intend to convert the building and hand it over to a disabilities charity.<br /><br />Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889, and was the 4th of 6th children born to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. pic.twitter.com/GQTx58Lqgm— WW2 Daily Fact (@WW2dailyfact) June 11, 2017<br /><br />The state currently pays €5,000 a month in rent to Gerlinde Pommer and under the expropriation law she will receive compensation. <br /><br />The mass killer was born on the top floor of the building near the Austro-German border in 1889.<br />
