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Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (/ ... Speer shows Hitler a project at Obersalzberg. In January 1931, Speer applied for Nazi Party membership, and on 1 March ...
The construction of new buildings served other purposes beyond reaffirming Nazi ideology. In Flossenbürg and elsewhere, the Schutzstaffel built forced-labor camps where prisoners of the Third Reich were forced to mine stone and make bricks, much of which went directly to Albert Speer for use in his rebuilding of Berlin and other projects in Germany.
Albert Speer, the "first architect of the Third Reich", produced many of the plans for the rebuilt city in his capacity as overseer of the project, only a small portion of which was realised between the years 1938 and 1943.
Albert Speer Jr (German pronunciation: [ˈʃpeːɐ̯]; 29 July 1934 – 15 September 2017) was a German architect and urban planner. He was the son of Albert Speer (1905–1981), Adolf Hitler 's chief architect before assuming the office of Minister of Armaments and War Production for Germany during World War II .
Model of the Große Halle. The Volkshalle (German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlksˌhalə], "People's Hall"), also called Große Halle ([ˌɡʁoːsə ˈhalə], "Great Hall") or Ruhmeshalle ([ˈʁuːməsˌhalə], "Hall of Glory"), was a proposal for a monumental, domed building to be built in a reconstituted Berlin (renamed as Germania) in Nazi Germany.
Albert Speer (1942–1945), Minister of Armaments and Munitions Organisation Todt (OT; [ʔɔʁɡanizaˈtsi̯oːn toːt] ) was a civil and military engineering organisation in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, named for its founder, Fritz Todt , an engineer and senior member of the Nazi Party .
A purpose for the project that increasingly came to the fore was to unify Germany, by enabling Germans to explore it and appreciate its beauty; [105] [106] including the new territories that had been added to the Reich under the Nazis; [107] Albert Speer stated that the autobahns were uniform in design to express the unity of the Reich. [108]
Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer visiting a test construction site near Nuremberg The party rally grounds in the year 1940, the Deutsches Stadion in the centre, left.. According to Speer himself, it was inspired not by the Circus Maximus in Rome but by the Panathenaic Stadium of Athens, which had impressed him greatly when he had visited it in 1935. [1]