Berlin's government is offering to give away a villa once owned by Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, hoping to end a decades-long debate on whether to repurpose or bulldoze a sprawling disused site in the countryside north of the German capital.
Evers renewed that offer on Thursday, calling for proposals that reflected the site's history. If we fail again, as in the past decades, then Berlin has no other option but to carry out the demolition that we have already prepared for, Evers said.
Goebbels, one of Hitler's closest allies, had the luxury villa built in 1939 on a wooded site overlooking the Bogensee lake near the town of Wandlitz, about 40km (25 miles) north of Berlin.
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