Nazi museum to open in Munich

Munich: Munich will open a museum on the former site of the Nazi party headquarters today, in a long overdue reckoning with the German city's status as the “home of the movement”. The inauguration coincides with the 70th anniversary of the “liberation” of Munich by US troops at the end of World War II, and of Adolf Hitler's suicide the same day in a Berlin bunker. Ageing American veterans and Holocaust survivors will join political leaders for a solemn ceremony at the new museum, a modern white cube built among a few surviving neo-classical buildings in what was the Nazis’ organisational nerve centre.