The former estate of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels is too expensive to keep and perilous to sell. No one knows quite what to do with it.
Behind thickets of beech trees, overgrown with nettles and beside a blue lake an hour north of Berlin, a villa that once belonged to a Nazi mastermind quietly rots.
The lecture hall at a campus built by the Communist Party on the grounds of Joseph Goebbels’ former villa near Wandlitz, Germany.An earlier inquiry from an extreme-right group called the Reichsburger movement seemed to embody the authorities’ worst fears. The group denies the legitimacy of the current German state; some of its members are on trial for a plot to overthrow the government.
The benefit of its law enforcement tenants is that their presence keeps at bay Nazi sympathisers who sometimes make pilgrimages to such sites. Last year in Austria, the government moved to convert Hitler’s birthplace into a police station for this reason, drawing contentious debate.German politics, sentiment has shifted toward remembering the past in order to never forget it.
The lecture hall at a campus built by the Communist Party on the grounds of Joseph Goebbels’ former villa.The mansion is filled with architectural flourishes that were popular among Nazi leaders, like its clever day-room windows that fold away into the floor – a touch also used in Hitler’s own vacation retreat in the Bavarian Alps. There is a bunker out back, too, just in case.
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