 The Arnhold family regained ownership of the home in 1953, and the villa was sold to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1958.During the post-WWII tripartite division of the Berlin, the villa was located in the American Sector.There, it was designated for various uses, including as a home for refugees from communist Eastern Bloc countries and, for the last decades of the Cold War, a U.S. Army recreation center, until the departure of American military forces from reunified Berlin, in 1994.