For Sale....the Villa where Goebbels seduced his Nazi Starlet

For sale: the villa where Goebbels seduced his Nazi starlets
Berlin's city government has been trying to find a buyer for the 70-room lakeside complex for more than two decades
The property is believed to be the only leading Nazi bigwig’s villa to remain intact after the Second World War
The property is believed to be the only leading Nazi bigwig’s villa to remain intact after the Second World War Photo: GETTY
By Tony Paterson, Berlin7:05PM BST 14 Jun 2014
The lakeside villa was Berlin’s gift to Joseph Goebbels. The infamous Nazi propaganda minister used it as a secret “love nest” in which to consummate his countless affairs and as a tranquil refuge from where he composed tirades against the Jews in order to please Adolf Hitler.
Yet sixty nine years after Goebbels and his wife murdered their six children and then committed suicide in a garden above Hitler’s Berlin bunker, the Nazi minister’s Haus am Bogensee villa survives intact, overgrown and empty in a lost corner of East Germany just 24 miles north of the capital.
The Berlin city government, which owns the listed 70-room lakeside complex completed in 1939, has been trying in vain since Germany’s reunification to find a buyer for the Goebbels’ villa.

But its unsavoury past has deterred prospective investors and Berlin is concerned that neo-Nazis might bid for the complex in disguise.
“The nature of the property means that the background of anyone interested in it, has to be checked,” a spokesman told The Telegraph, “ Nobody can say how long it will be before we find a suitable investor,” he added.
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So far no prospective buyer’s name has been put forward despite more than 20 years of attempts to sell off the Haus am Bogensee.
The property is believed to be the only leading Nazi bigwig’s villa to remain intact after the Second World War. Nazi Air Marhsal Hermann Goering’s lavish “Carinhall” lodge nearby was blown up in 1945.
Despite its historical status, the Haus am Bogensee has become an expensive and embarrassing millstone costing thousands each year in maintenance costs – although the city says that recent attempts to market the villa in a package with a number of East German communist era buildings raised some interest.
Nowadays visiting the Nazi propaganda minister’s rural hideaway means taking an excursion into Germany’s not so distant past. The Haus am Bogensee stands in the middle of a park-like complex of East German communist era buildings, on a street, named after the prominent Soviet proletarian writer Nicolai Ostrovski.
The Goebbels villa was used as a communist youth university after 1945, but the deep overhanging Nordic roof of the building and the rough stone columns supporting its covered entrance show that it is a piece of typical Nazi-era “Germanic” architecture built in the style of Adolf Hitler’s now destroyed “Berghof” Bavarian mountain retreat.
The Haus am Bogensee boasts the remains of an underground bunker, a cinema and a still fully intact and elaborate banqueting hall complete with open fireplace, oak panelled ceiling and French windows which sink into the floor allowing unhindered access to a large outdoor terrace. “It is a place of idyllic solitude”, is how Goebbels described his country surroundings.
The club-footed and sexually voracious Nazi minister exploited the villa for his own ends.
The abode was far away from the Berlin mansion he shared with his wealthy and ardently pro-Nazi wife, Magda and their six children. Goebbels used its remoteness to indulge his reputation as the so-called “ Bock” (Randy Goat) of Babelsberg – the name of the Berlin studios film over which he reigned supreme.
After sacking Babelsberg’s Jewish actresses, Goebbels devoted much of his time to seducing the Aryan starlets who replaced them.
The Haus am Bogensee became renowned as his “love nest”.
The propaganda minister’s escapades were finally brought to the attention of a disapproving Adolf Hitler with Goebbel’s all too public dalliance with the Czech actress Lida Baavora, which prompted Magda Goebbels to contemplate divorce.
Hitler was aghast at the prospect of the outwardly “model Nazi” Goebbels family breaking up and ordered his propaganda minister to end the affair.
Goebbels obeyed.
When the Allies started bombing the capital of the Third Reich, Magda and the children moved into the Haus am Bogensee from where Goebbels continued to write venomous propaganda, including his famous appeal to Germans to embark on “Total War “ in February 1943.
Goebbels and his family left towards the end of April 1945 and joined Hitler in his Berlin bunker. Hitler committed suicide on April 30th.
Goebbels and his wife poisoned their six children the following day and killed themselves shortly afterwards.
Today there is little to remind the visitor of the Haus am Bogensee’s turbulent past. The Berlin city government has not set an asking price for the complex but hopes that the site may be turned into a hotel, boarding school or a wellness spa.
It has made no provision to ensure that the villa’s Nazi associations are remembered, should it eventually sell the property. “It would depend on what any new owner wants,” a city government spokeswoman told the Telegraph.

He was a Monster.....who would want to buy the House, it should be destroyed.