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The Deutsches Stadion ("German Stadium") was a monumental stadium designed by Albert Speer for the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg, southern Germany.Its construction began in September 1937, and was scheduled for completion in 1943.
the Deutsche Stadion (German stadium) (only foundations were built), which was to be the largest sports stadium in the world; the former Stadion der Hitlerjugend ("stadium of the Hitler Youth", today Frankenstadion) the Große Straße ("Great Road"), a (never-used) parade road
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.
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 ...
Inherent in the gesture of this project is a pun [clarification needed] on the name and a refutation of the chief Nazi architect Albert Speer who had directed a masterplan for this site including a Zeppelin Field, a stadium to hold 400,000, a March Field for military exercises, a Congress Hall for 50,000, and a 55-metre (180 ft) wide Great Road ...
Central Stadium (German: Zentralstadion, pronounced [tsɛnˈtra:lˈʃta:di̯ɔn] ⓘ) was a stadium with a capacity of 120,000 in Leipzig which was initially used for matches of SC Rotation Leipzig. About 1.5 million cubic metres of debris from the World War II bombing of Leipzig was used in the stadium's construction.
The battle was a blow to Nazi Germany as Nuremberg was a center of the Nazi regime. The Nuremberg Rallies took place in the city and to lose the city to the Americans took a heavy toll on already low German morale. [1] Even though American forces heavily outnumbered the German forces, [2] it wasn't until 20 April, that the 7th Army took the ...
The crowning achievement of this movement was to be Welthauptstadt Germania, the projected renewal of the German capital Berlin following the Nazis' presumed victory of World War II. [8] Speer, who oversaw the project, produced most of the plans for the new city. Only a small portion of the "World Capital" was ever built between 1937 and 1943.