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Hitler house in Austria 'to be demolished'

A new law will allow the government to seize the building in Braunau am Inn from its current owners.

Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said a committee of experts had decided that the house should be demolished, reported Austrian newspaper Die Presse. 

A new building put in its place will be used for administrative or for charitable purposes, the paper added.

Read entire article at BBC