Oskar Schindler's factory to go on market

[PRAGUE] Oskar Schindler's factory is headed for the market, and Blahoslav Kaspar knows it will be a tough sell.

The mayor of Brnenec, a village of 1,300 in the eastern Czech Republic, insists the crumbling complex would be the perfect spot for any kind of light industry. He also suggests it could be a Holocaust museum.

The factory once belonged to Mr Schindler, a Czech-German industrialist, spy and a member of the Nazi party who sheltered about 1,200 Jews there in the final months of the Second World War. Their story was featured in Steven Spielberg's Academy award-winning 1993 film Schindler's List.

The complex "has real potential", Mr Kaspar said, looking at the cluster of abandoned buildings from the window of his second-floor office perched on a small hill above the factory. He does acknowledge that for now, "it looks like Dresden after the bombing". The complex has been the subject of almost 100 civil and criminal lawsuits since it went bankrupt 10 years ago. Mr Kaspar says that those disputes are close to being resolved, and says that the town would offer it for a symbolic sum to a…