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The Old and New Chancellery shared a large garden area, with the underground Führerbunker, where Hitler ultimately committed suicide at the end of April 1945. Hitler placed the entire northern side of the Voßstraße at Speer's disposal, assigning him the work of creating grand halls and salons which "will make an impression on people". [ 5 ]
He completed the preliminary work for the new chancellery by May 1936. In June 1936 he charged a personal honorarium of 30,000 Reichsmark and estimated the chancellery would be completed within three to four years. Detailed plans were completed in July 1937 and the first shell of the new chancellery was complete on 1 January 1938.
Haus des Meeres Albert Speer's New Reich Chancellery with Arno Breker's two statues, completed in 1939 Greater Vienna was the second-largest city of the Reich, three times greater than old Vienna. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Three pairs of concrete flak towers were constructed between 1942 and 1944; one of them is known as Haus des Meeres , another one ...
He was made official state sculptor, and exempted from military service. [1] One of his better known statues is Die Partei, representing the spirit of the Nazi Party that flanked one side of the carriage entrance to Albert Speer's new Reich Chancellery.
Albert Speer – Speer was Hitler's chief architect, his notable works include the German Pavilion for the 1937 Paris Expo and for the E42 Rome Expo, the Zeppelinfeld, the New Reich Chancellery which suffered severe damage during WW2 and was later demolished, the Deutsches Stadion that was never completed, and the plans for the new Berlin ...
Speer designed a new Chancellery, which included a vast hall designed to be twice as long as the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles. Hitler wanted him to build a third, even larger Chancellery, although it was never begun. The second Chancellery was destroyed by the Soviet Army in 1945.
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He assigned his favourite architect Albert Speer to build the new Chancellery. [2] After the massive renovations were completed in early 1939 per Hitler's insistence, the globe was moved to Hitler's new office located at the heart of the new Chancellery, where it remained until the Soviets occupied the building in April 1945. [2]