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An Austrian court sentenced the government to pay 1.5 million euros to the owner of the house where Adolf Hitler was born following a dispute over the expropriation of the property.
The district court of Ried im Innkreis stated that the state had to "substantially increase" the value that he had paid for the house in Braunau ", taking into account that the building was the birthplace of Adolf Hitler ". according to the local newspaper "Oberösterreichische Nachrichten".
In 2016, the government expropriated the three-storey building at a price of 310,000 euros. Since then, its owner, Gerlinde Pommer, has been sued for compensation for the loss of property.
The sum of 1.5 million euros that she has obtained corresponds exactly to the price that her lawyers have declared for the building and the parking lot.
The Austrian Government has not yet stated whether it intends to appeal.
The dispute began eight years ago when Pommer signed a multi-decade contract with the Department of the Interior to maintain a safe haven for people with disabilities.
Pommer rejected government plans to make the building more accessible to wheelchairs, and then declined all government offers to buy it.
A plan to create a place in a refugee center in 2014 also ended in failure.
A sign in front of the house indicates that the death of millions of people is an alarm against the return of fascism – Photo: Dominic Ebenbichler / Reuters
] After the comings and goings, the government bought the building by an expropriation order, and the judge rejected Pommer's argument that he was violating his rights.
But the property is "in limbo" since then because the authorities can not decide what to do with the building.
Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka told the newspaper "Die Presse" that he wanted to demolish the house so that "nothing can be left except the basement" and build there a Charity work.
The problem is that the house is protected by the Department of Heritage, some parts of which were built in the seventeenth century.
The aim is to prevent the neo-Nazi pilgrimages to this place every year on the day of Hitler's birthday – the Nazi leader was born there in 1889. [anddemolitionisverycontroversial
Some Austrians see the demolition plan an attempt to erase the country's uncomfortable connection with Nazism.
Questions about the country's past have grown in importance in recent years thanks to the electoral success of the far-right Freedom Party, which has been part of the coalition government of Vienna since 2017. [19659019] * with a report by Martin Morgan
