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Old Hitler Youth HQ to become club for rich and famous

BERLIN -- A building in Berlin that was once a headquarters of the Hitler Youth is to re-open as a British-owned members' club for the rich and famous.

The imposing eight-storey former department store near the German capital's trendy eastern districts has been unloved and crumbling for decades.

But now it has been snapped up by the owners of Soho House, London's fashionable media hang-out, and will be transformed into an exclusive club with a swimming pool, cinema and fitness centre...

The building was owned by Jewish business partners in the 1920s before being taken over by the Nazis and handed to the leadership of the Hitler Youth.

After the war, it underwent a political reverse as the East German Communist Party made it their headquarters. It continued to be used by the communist regime in the east until the fall of the Berlin wall, when it was abandoned.

The building was eventually restored to the descendents of the original owners, but they had struggled to find any buyers for it until Soho House stepped in.
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