Hitler's birthplace has £2m asking price

05 November 2009

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THE owner of the Austrian house where Adolf Hitler was born wants to put it on the market with an asking price of more than £2 million.

But the local authority in Braunau-am-Inn has vowed to resist the sale to private individuals because it fears the house could end up in the hands of extreme right-wingers.

Braunau mayor Gerhard Skiba said ideally the town would like to buy it to control its future fate. But there is not enough money in the coffers to buy Salzburger Vorstadt 15. Mr Skiba says he will appeal to the government in Vienna to help the town purchase the property if the owner goes ahead with the sale.

Pressure is on from historians to turn the place into a museum, though this is also opposed.