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Hitler conceived of rebuilding Berlin to be the capital of the new world he would be instrumental in creating, and provided the name for it, 'Germania'. [1] According to records of Hitler's "table talk" of 8 June 1942, Hitler's purpose in the renaming was to give a Greater Germanic world empire of the New Order a clear central point:
Berlin: A Portrait of Its History, Politics, Architecture, and Society (1999) McKay, Sinclair. Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century (2022) excerpt, popular history 1919 to 1989. Moorhouse, Roger. Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital 1939‒1945 (2011) Newman, Kitty.
Sterneckerbräu, where Hitler attended his first German Workers' Party meeting on 12 September 1919 (photo 1925) [20] 1901 Franz Eher publisher in business. Prinzregententheater opens. 1902 - Anthropologisch-Prähistorisches Sammlung des Staates formed. 1903 - Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik founded.
In 1923 Hitler and his supporters, who were concentrated in Munich, staged the Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic and seize power. The revolt failed, resulting in Hitler's arrest and the temporary crippling of the Nazi Party, which was virtually unknown outside Munich. At the end of the Residenzstrasse, where the ...
The revolt failed, resulting in Hitler's arrest and the temporary crippling of the Nazi Party (NSDAP). [76] Munich was chosen as capital for the Free State of Bavaria and acquired increased responsibility for administering the city itself and the surrounding districts. Offices needed to be built for bureaucracy, so a 12-story office building ...
The National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party, was founded in 1920. [11] The Nazi party platform included destruction of the Weimar Republic, rejection of the Treaty of Versailles, radical antisemitism , and anti- Bolshevism . [ 12 ]
Berlin (/ b ɜːr ˈ l ɪ n / bur-LIN; German: [bɛʁˈliːn] ⓘ) [10] is the capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and population. [11] With 3.66 million inhabitants, [5] it has the highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union.
1704 – Vossische Zeitung founded. 1705 Charlottenburg founded. French Cathedral built in Friedrichstadt. 1706 – Zeughaus built. 1708 9 April: Neue Kirche completed in Friedrichstadt. Frankfurter Allee built. 1709 Berlin merges with the cities of Cölln, Dorotheenstadt, Friedrichstadt, and Friedrichswerder to create the capital and royal ...