Current Affairs Brno city hall makes U-turn in Tugendhat villa case

21-03-2007 15:44 | Pavla Horáková

It was a U-turn that few had expected. Less than two months after Brno city hall decided to return the UNESCO-listed villa Tugendhat to the descendants of its pre-WWII Jewish owners, the city authority changed its mind. The original plan was to transfer the functionalist structure to the state which is legally entitled to handle the returns of property confiscated by the Nazis. After the state rejected this procedure, Brno city hall revised its previous decision.

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