Berlin’s Finance Ministry has renewed its offer to give away a lakeside villa built for Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, in a last attempt to avoid its demolition.

Berlin’s state finance minister, Stefan Evers, said the villa was available for free for anyone willing to take up its hefty upkeep.

“I am offering anyone who would like to take over the site to take it over as a gift from the state of Berlin,” Evers said, expressing hope to receive a new proposal from the state of Brandenburg, where the villa is actually located.

“If we fail again, as in the past decades, then…