Documentation Center for the History of Nazism

The Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism was opened for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the city by the American army.
The modern building stands on the site of the former Brown House, which was the headquarters of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), and is only a few meters away from the former Führer building (Führerbau), where the Munich Agreement among the four Western countries to dismantle Czechoslovakia was signed at the end of September 1938.
The opening was attended not only by Bavarian politicians but also by survivors from concentration camps and American war veterans. The Thursday ceremony took place on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the suicide of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Bavarian metropolis from the Nazi regime by the American army.
The center focuses on the history of Nazism, particularly on the activities of the NSDAP from its founding in Munich in 1920 until its ban in 1945. Adolf Hitler took the lead of the party in 1921.
In the former Führer building, where on the night of September 30, 1938, Hitler, Italian leader Benito Mussolini, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and his French counterpart Édouard Daladier signed the agreement to cede the Czechoslovak border regions to Nazi Germany, is now home to the Munich University of Music and Theatre.