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Führer city, status given to five German cities in 1937 for a planned gigantic urban transformation; Führer Headquarters, buildings used as headquarters by Adolf Hitler; Nordstern, a planned new German metropolis in occupied Norway; Pabst Plan, plan to reconstruct Warsaw as a Nazi model city. Germania, the projected renewal of Berlin.
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.
Nazi architecture — a Fascist architecture style of Nazi Germany in the 1930s−1940s. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
In Nazi Germany, the extremely large and spacious architecture was one way envisioned by Hitler to unify Germany for what he described as "mass experiences", in which thousands of citizens could gather and take part in the patriotism of community events, and listen to speeches made by Hitler and other Nazi party leaders. Some of the buildings ...
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.
The Führerbunker was located about 8.5 metres (28 ft) beneath the garden of the old Reich Chancellery at Wilhelmstraße 77, and 120 metres (390 ft) north of the new Reich Chancellery building at Voßstraße 6 in Berlin. [4] It became a de facto Führer Headquarters during the Battle of Berlin, and ultimately, the last of his headquarters. [5]
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Hitlerbauten or Hitler buildings are the residential buildings in Linz, which were planned or built during the time of National Socialism, Nazi architecture. Especially in the districts Bindermichl, Spallerhof and Urfahr, but also in other parts of the city numerous Hitler buildings were built.