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Austria MPs vote to seize Hitler birth house

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Austrian MPs have voted to expropriate the home where Adolf Hitler was born, ending years of bitter legal wrangling with the current owner over the infamous building’s future. A large majority approved the new law, which was submitted by the Government earlier this year in a bid to stop the dilapidated house in the northern town of Braunau am Inn from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine. local resident Gerlinde Pommer — who has been renting the premises to the Austrian state since 1972 — will receive compensation under the legislation. It is not yet clear what will happen with the yellow corner house located right in Braunau’s historic centre.