The villa was constructed for Goebbels on a 17-hectare plot of land just outside Berlin that the city gifted him in 1936.

It came to several miscellaneous uses for about a decade following the fall of the Berlin Wall, before being abandoned. Its maintenance and upkeep have become a liability for the state surrounding Berlin and the federal government.

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Germany has long struggled when dealing with former Nazi sites, which are often complicated to demolish, amid fears that leaving them intact could attract a new wave of far-right extremists.