ヒトラーの生家、改修し警察署に　２０２３年完成予定

【ウィーンＡＦＰ＝時事】オーストリア当局は2日、ナチス・ドイツの指導者アドルフ・ヒトラーの生家の外観を改修して警察署として利用する計画を発表した。政府によると改修費用は500万ユーロ（約6億円）程度で、2023年に完成する予定。（写真はオーストリア・ウィーンにある同国の内務省で開かれた記者会見で、採用されたアドルフ・ヒトラーの生家の改修計画を説明するカール・ネハンマー内相）
　１８８９年４月２０日、ドイツと国境を接する北部ブラウナウにある黄色の家でヒトラーは生まれた。ヒトラーがここに居住したのは短期間だったものの、世界各地からナチス支持者らが集まる状態が続いていた。また、ヒトラーの誕生日には、建物の外で反ファシストデモが行われたこともある。
　この家は２０１６年、政府の管轄下に入った。建物の将来をめぐり、長期にわたって所有者と法廷闘争が繰り広げられたが、これが昨年ようやく決着していた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/06/03-12:36）

Austrian officials unveiled Tuesday plans to neutralise Adolf Hitler's birth house by turning it into a police station, with the building receiving some cosmetic changes in the process.
The yellow corner house in the northern Austrian town of Braunau on the border with Germany, where Hitler was born on April 20 1889, was taken into government control in 2016.
The building's fate was the subject of a lengthy legal battle with the house's owner, which only ended last year.
Austrian architecture firm Marte.Marte, run by two brothers, has been chosen from among 12 candidates to carry out the modifications to the property.
The government expects the work to cost some 5 million euros ($5.6 million) and be completed by early 2023.
A new chapter will be opened for the future from the birth house of a dictator and mass murderer, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said at a press conference announcing the plans.
Ministry official Hermann Feiner added that by adjusting the architecture and usage of the building the government aimed to neutralise the entire premises.
Although Hitler only spent a short time at the property, it has continued to draw Nazi sympathisers from around the world.
Anti-fascist protesters have also organised rallies outside the building on Hitler's birthday.
Officials said Tuesday that the 800-square-metre (8,600-square-feet) property -- which also has several garages and parking spaces located behind the main building -- would get two pointed gables but that much of the original structure would remain intact.
A commemorative plaque outside the building will also be removed and may be exhibited in a museum.
Austria's highest court ruled last year that Gerlinde Pommer, whose family owned the house for nearly a century, was entitled to some 810,000 euros in compensation, ending a lengthy legal battle.
Pommer had been renting the property to the interior ministry since the 1970s.
The government paid her around 4,800 euros a month and used it as a centre for people with disabilities.
But this arrangement fell apart in 2011 when Pommer refused to carry out essential renovation work and also declined to sell it.
Since then, the building has lain empty.
At one point, the interior ministry was pushing to have it torn down but the plans ran into angry resistance from politicians and historians.
Germany annexed Austria in 1938, and although many top henchmen from Hitler downwards were Austrians, historians say the small Alpine country was slow to acknowledge for many years its shared responsibility for the Holocaust and the other crimes of the Nazis.