Austria has awarded the owner of Adolf Hitler's birth house 810,000 Euros (£745,000, $904,502) after the government took control of the building to stop the location attracting Nazi sympathisers.
Austrian authorities have been keen to prevent the dilapidated yellow corner house in the northern town of Braunau from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
The government took control of the holding in December 2016 after years of wrangling with the owner, Gerlinde Pommer.
The Pommer family has owned the house where Hitler was born on April 20 1889, for almost a century
Although Hitler only spent a short time there as a baby, it continues to draw Nazi sympathisers from around the world.
In January, a court ruled that the state should pay Pommer 1.5 million Euros (£1.380 million) in compensation for taking over the property.
But another tribunal overturned this verdict in April, deciding that a more appropriate amount would be 810,000 Euros (£745,000) excluding any rental income.
Austrian authorities will now invite submissions from architects about the future of the site.
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'After the court's decision on compensation, a use for Hitler's birth house can now be found within the framework of the law to prevent any sort of Nazi-related activity,' Interior Minister Wolfgang Peschorn said in a statement.
Before the ruling, the Austrian government paid her around 4,800 Euros (£4,400) 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.
Every year on Hitler's birthday, anti-fascist protesters organise a rally outside the building.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
