Are these buildings disqualified for normal use? Or can they somehow be denazified? In the first postwar years these questions were rarely posed: an intact building was too precious to be subject to moral scruples, whereas it was easy to consign damaged Third Reich buildings to oblivion. (Except where extraterritorial rights intervened: the massive Spanish, Italian, and Japanese embassies south of the Tiergarten sat for decades in ruins and in limbo; the first two remain that way.)15 After a generation had passed, doubts and questions were raised here and there: Should a particular building’s
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