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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.
World War II sites in the Channel Islands (1 C, 11 P) Pages in category "World War II sites of Nazi Germany" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total.
The unfinished or war-damaged buildings were completed after the war. The general planning was largely the responsibility of the architect Roderich Fick . The buildings were executed by various planners, such as Armin Sturmberger, Fritz Fanta, Herbert Rimpl and Hans Arndt as well as by Roderich Fick himself Buildings are listed 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.
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In reality, Nazi Germany's military command during the war generally rested upon Hitler's directives, while the rest of the military command structure, especially the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) (directly controlled by Hitler) was reduced to executing his decisions, as compared to most other nations' command structures, which generally had ...