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Although the financial crisis had already frustrated the inauguration plans the seizure of power by the National Socialists completely sealed the impossibility of opening the house to the public. After coming to power the Nazis confiscated the building and looted it burned a red flag and finally occupied it locating the headquarters of their own local newspaper the Nationalblatt of Trier there. The situation changed after the end of Nazism the house was quickly returned to the SPD and thanks to an international fundraising campaign a restoration of the rear part which had been hit by a bomb took place. In the following years Marxs birthplace was mainly used as the office of the local SPD although a small exhibition could be seen which however could not use the documents and objects collected before as they had been destroyed or looted by the Nazis.
The building was not inaugurated as the Karl Marx House Museum Russia Mobile Number List several decades later. Exactly in . In a particularly eventful year in Europe due to numerous student protests and the rise of the New Left a seminar was held in Trier to commemorate the th anniversary of Marxs birth whose main speaker was the philosopher Ernst Bloch.
In this context Willy Brandt leader of the Social Democratic Party who would become chancellor the following year reopened the house. What did this process entail and what were the SPDs intentions regarding the house First of all I must tell you that in the house where Karl Marx was born changed hands. The SPD gave the property to the Friedrich Ebert Foundation to build a museum exhibiting the central features of Marxs life and work. Given that in the th anniversary of his birth was celebrated the house functioned as a central space to develop an international exhibition dedicated to reflecting on and honoring his figure. This exhibition focused more on the socalled young Marx which allowed us to see aspects of his thought and his ideas that were very different from those that for example were intended to be shown in the German Democratic Republic.