New Munich Nazi Center

From Deutsche Welle:
"Munich gets a new Nazi documentation center"

With the city's dark past, Munich's Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism is long overdue. The new building's foundation stone has now been laid at the former site of the Nazi party headquarters. "Barlow Palace" is almost unknown today in Munich, despite its unique role in the city's history. From 1931 until it was destroyed in the Second World War, the National Socialist party had its headquarters there. In the 1950s, the bombed-out remains of what was known as the "Brown House" during Nazi occupation were cleared away. Since 2011, building work has been underway at the site, with the aim of creating the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism. The center will give a detailed history of the Nazi regime, from the very place where the crimes and terror were once organized. Munich played a central role in the beginnings and rise to popularity of Nazism. It was here that the National Socialist party was founded, the party headquarters were here and it was also the scene of the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 when Adolf Hitler unsuccessfully tried to seize power. Hitler himself called Munich the "capital" of his movement and tried to design the city in accordance with his aesthetic vision. When it opens in 2014, the new center will set out to examine the reasons and circumstances that lead to the Nazi rise of power in Munich. In addition, techniques of propaganda and terror, the persecution of non-conformists and the uprisings against the Nazis will also be documented. The building will have four levels, with over 1,000 square meters (10,800 square feet) of display space.

^ As the article states it is long overdue. I'm glad that it is finally on track to open in two years and that it teaches about Nazism and the effects on the world both during the war as well as today. ^

http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15799814,00.html