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By ANDREW POWELL MUNICH \u2014 Tomorrow, a year behind schedule but 70 years to the day since Munich fell to the Allies, a six-story-high, slatted white cube opens for visitors here: the Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, or NS-Dokumentations-Zentrum<\/a>. Significantly, it stands directly on the site of the former Brown House<\/a>, where the fascist leaders maintained offices. As the center\u2019s website points out:<\/p>\n \u201cThe City of Munich is aware of its special obligation to keep alive the memory of the Nazi era and its crimes and to inform citizens and visitors about it. After all, it was here in Munich that the rise of the National Socialist movement began after the First World War. Munich was also the scene of the beer-hall putsch<\/a> of 1923 and of Hitler\u2019s subsequent trial. Here Hitler found influential patrons who gave him entry to bourgeois circles. And it was here in 1938 that Goebbels called for the nationwide pogrom against the Jewish population. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Munich was chosen by Hitler as the place to celebrate the cult of Nazism and given the titles Capital of German Art<\/em> and Capital of the Movement<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Designed by Georg Scheel Wetzel Architekten<\/a>, the 5,000-square-meter facility also happens to be a few feet from Germany\u2019s top conservatory, the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater<\/a>, itself housed in the Nazi-built former F\u00fchrerbau<\/a>. Harshly its positioning and aspect interrupt Bavarian King Ludwig I\u2019s two-century-old, Neo-Classical civic plan between K\u00f6nigsplatz<\/a> and Karolinenplatz<\/a>. Munich moved at a snail\u2019s pace to realize the cube, which provides permanent and temporary exhibition space as well as study rooms. In contrast, Cologne<\/a> and the Obersalzberg<\/a> resort area, location of the Eagle\u2019s Nest<\/a>, have long operated similarly purposed learning facilities. Now this city can do the strongest job in furtherance of \u201cnie wieder<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Photo \u00a9 Georg Scheel Wetzel Architekten<\/p>\n Related posts:
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