Several German ministries are moving into Berlin buildings used by the Third Reich as the government completes the transfer of its offices from Bonn. The Foreign Ministry is being housed in the former Reichsbank, where gold looted from Holocaust victims was stored in the basement. The leader of Berlin’s Jewish community, Andreas Nachama, backed the moves: “These buildings should be made visible with their history.”
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