"A Nazi Villa So Tainted Berlin Can’t Give It Away"

[The Bread Guy]

Looks like Joseph Goebbels' old place is a bit .... tough to unload for some reason.

A Nazi Villa So Tainted Berlin Can’t Give It Away (Published 2024)

The former estate of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, is too expensive to keep and perilous to sell. No one knows quite what to do with it.

www.nytimes.com

Also archived here if previous link doesn't work.

Not entirely without nibbles, though - from the NYT piece

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Looks like Joseph Goebbels' old place is a bit .... tough to unload for some reason.

A Nazi Villa So Tainted Berlin Can’t Give It Away (Published 2024)

The former estate of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, is too expensive to keep and perilous to sell. No one knows quite what to do with it.

www.nytimes.com

Also archived here if previous link doesn't work.

Not entirely without nibbles, though - from the NYT piece
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Hell, give me German citizenship, I'll take it for nothing!

 

[Kilted]

If it's so expensive to maintain, why didn't they tear it down years ago?

 

[The Bread Guy]

If it's so expensive to maintain, why didn't they tear it down years ago?

Just a guess, but reading between the lines from this bit of the article may give a hint ....

... Directly after World War II, the prevailing approach was to move on, ignoring prior ownership, so as not to risk reifying it, according to Peter Longerich, a historian and the author of “Goebbels,” a biography. Hitler’s apartment in Munich, for example, has little information detailing its history; it has long been a police station in which officers still use Hitler’s own wooden bookshelves, he said.

The benefit of its law enforcement tenants is that their presence keeps at bay Nazi sympathizers 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.

But as the far right has re-emerged in German politics, there has been a shift in sentiment toward remembering the past, in order to never forget it ...

 

[Blackadder1916]

. . . former estate of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister . . .

What they need is a marketing genius. Ironic, huh?

 

[Fishbone Jones]

What they need is a marketing genius. Ironic, huh?

Make up a lie and tell it often

 

[JLM1991]

I was gonna say turn it into a museum as learning about these events is important, but then I saw the part about "too expensive to maintain". Hmm...