Court orders Austrian state to pay €1.5 million for Hitler’s house
A court has ruled Austria should pay €1.5 million for the house where Adolf Hitler was born.
Three years ago authorities issued a compulsory purchase order for the three-storey building, situated near the Austria-Germany border.
They paid €310,000 and owner Gerlinde Pommer has been seeking full compensation ever since.
In a statement, the Regional Court of Ried im Innkreis said the new price assessment was based on the property’s market value and on “the peculiarity that it is the birthplace of Adolf Hitler”.
Hitler was born in the house in Brunau am Inn on April 20, 1889.
It was made the subject of a historic preservation order by Germany’s National Socialist regime in 1938 after being purchased by the Nazi government.
After being returned to the Pommer family in 1952, the house passed into Gerlinde Pommer’s hands in 1977.
Euronews