Germany aims to buy famed embassy in Prague

The Czech Foreign Ministry has confirmed it is aware of the German government’s interest in buying the country’s embassy building in Prague, a site that played a major role in the events leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago. A spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry said his country had long hoped to purchase Prague’s historic Lobkowitz Palace, home of the embassy, and that talks with the Czech government had advanced ahead of the anniversary of the Wall's collapse on November 9, 1989. That year, thousands of East Germans hoping to flee to the West massed for weeks at the German embassy in Prague before they were allowed to enter West Germany.