NS-Dokumentationszentrum München
White cube museum built on the ruins of the Nazi party's former headquarters.
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This guide to the NS-Dokumentationszentrum in Munich starts inside the Brown House, the Nazi party's nineteen-thirties headquarters that once stood on this site, tracing the men who worked here, from Hitler's study to the offices of Himmler, Goering, Hess and Goebbels, and the relic once enshrined in its halls. It follows the building through Allied bombing in nineteen forty-three and the ruin left standing on the plot for decades afterward. The mansion that originally stood here, Palais Barlow, was bought with party dues and loans from industrialists.
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