The German city of Munich is opening a new museum on Thursday dedicated to exploring its past as the birthplace of the Nazi movement.
The Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism charts the rise of the Nazi party from its founding in the Bavarian capital in 1920, a year before Adolf Hitler became its leader.
German Culture Minister Monika Gruetters praised the city on Wednesday for tackling what she called “the long repressed confrontation with the special role Munich played.”
Ms. Gruetters noted that Germany’s effort to examine its past which encompassed World War II and the murder of millions the Nazis considered unworthy of life is getting harder by the year because the number of witnesses is dwindling.