The German city of Nuremberg is to build a €130m opera house in the heart of the old Nazi party rally grounds.
The sprawling complex was used by Adolf Hitler for some of his fiercest speeches in front of 700,000 supporters.
Hitler had intended to use the horseshoe-shaped congress hall within the complex, notionally modelled on the Colosseum of Rome and measuring 275m by 265m, as his pulpit of choice. However, construction ground to a halt at the start of the Second World War and the empty shell has posed an awkward problem for Nuremberg ever since 1945.
Critics say building an opera house at the site is in questionable taste.
