Owner Sues to Keep House Where Hitler Was Born

The New York Times ^ | January 31, 2017 | Alison Smale

[Trump20162020]

BERLIN — The seemingly endless saga of the house in which Adolf Hitler was born has taken a new turn, with the owner challenging an Austrian law that allows the government to seize ownership and, possibly, demolish the property.

The house in the town of Braunau, just across the Inn River from Bavaria, has been in limbo for decades. The Austrian government took over the main lease in 1972 in an effort to ensure that the property would not fall into the hands of someone seeking to glorify its link to a dark history. Hitler was born in the building on April 20, 1889, in an apartment that his parents had rented above a tavern on the ground level.

The Austrian government offered to buy the building in 1984 from Gerlinde Pommer, who is a descendant of the original owners. For decades, she refused to sell.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I heard Trump bought the building and is relocating Bannon there to set up shop. /sarcasm

[Calvin Locke]

Paging Justice Kennedy...

Where does it stop, assuming anything else is still standing? The grade school, HS, art school? How about the church where a youthful Adolph sang in the choir, and I assume, baptized?

[Responsibility2nd]

On a totally different non related matter, I wonder If someone owns the condo where B. Hussein lived growing up in Hawaii?

[T Ruth]

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[Vaquero]

Mein Tannenbaum!

[Pontiac]

I wonder If someone owns the condo where B. Hussein lived growing up in Hawaii?

I imagine someone owns the place but it is probably empty.

Demon possessed houses are hard to rent.

[ExGeeEye]

I’m given to understand AH’s apartment in Munich is now a police station.

[drop 50 and fire for effect]

Refurbish it into a small synagogue. Poetic justice, and you’ll be able to hear the scream of outrage from Hell.

[Gay State Conservative]

I can easily see why it would be best for this house to be destroyed.There are situations where government policy can,and must,trump (no pun intended) private ownership.However,as in all such cases the owner must be fairly compensated.

[Gay State Conservative]

Refurbish it into a small synagogue.

Hard to imagine many Jews wanting to worship there.

[crazy scenario]

" Demon possessed houses are hard to rent. "

Especially having to deal with all those $hit eating flys the "One" is plagued with.

[Trump20162020]

Somehow society survived till 2017 with this house, why does it suddenly need to be demolished immediately?

[bgill]

Oh, there’d be plenty who would love to worship there. Cleanse it from the evilness.

Still, it’s been nearly 130 years.

[bk1000]

They turned the Eagle’s Nest into a tea room. Why not tear it down also?

[drop 50 and fire for effect]

Probably not, but the symbology would be worth it alone.

[Repeat Offender]

Symbology?

[BBell]

Protracted negotiations collapsed last year, and the government in Vienna submitted a bill to Parliament to expropriate the building in the national interest, given that “no other historical property exists in Austria that holds such a special, global and political meaning.”

Austrians like to convince themselves that Hitler was German and Beethoven was Austrian.