Hitler birth house
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Austrian house where Hitler was born to house charity agency
The house where Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was born in is set to become the base for a charity that helps the disabled after the Austrian government backed down from its original plan to demolish it.
VIENNA- Austrian government officials have decided to transform the home where Adolf Hitler was born into a base for a charity, not tear down the property
as some demanded.
Thursday's decision comes a day after lawmakers overwhelmingly approved an Interior Ministry bill to dispossess the owner, who had refused to sell the empty building in Braunau am Inn, a town on Austria's border with Germany.
Hitler's birth house (Photo: AFP, Gettyimages)
Provincial governor Josef Puehringer says destroying the structure would have fueled accusations of "tearing down a piece of burdensome history."
Puehringer says the house will be offered to an agency running a workshop for disabled people.
