Capitalist Avenue? 'Nein Danke!' say Karl Marx Allee tenants in Berlin


  • World
  • Wednesday, 21 Nov 2018

BERLIN (Reuters) - Tenants are up in arms over the sale of apartments on the most prominent boulevard in old Communist East Germany to Berlin's largest property company, the latest in a wave of protests over skyrocketing rents in the German capital.

Deutsche Wohnen has bought 700 flats on Karl Marx Allee, a sweeping boulevard of monumental Stalinist architecture that was one of the flagship building projects of the former German Democratic Republic after World War Two.

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