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A large impressive stone structure, the building that would later be the Nazi Party center of operations was located at 45 Brienner Straße in Munich, Bavaria. Situated between Karolinenplatz and Königsplatz, the mansion was built in 1828 by Jean Baptiste Métivier in neoclassical style for the aristocrat Karl Freiherr von Lotzbeck.
The Honor Temples (German: Ehrentempel) were two structures in Munich, erected by the Nazis in 1935, housing the sarcophagi of the sixteen members of the Party who had been killed in the failed Beer Hall Putsch (the Blutzeugen, "blood witnesses").
Berlin Tempelhof Airport Terminal Building Berlin: 1936-1966 Brown House (Braunes Haus) Munich (45 Brienner Straße) 1931 1945 Carinhall: 1933 1945 Central Ministry of Bavaria (Zentralministerium des Landes Bayern) Munich: 1940 Congress Hall: Nazi party rally grounds, Nuremberg: 1935 Deutsches Stadion: Nuremberg: 1937 (never completed) Ehrentempel
After Hitler was discharged from the Bavarian Army in March 1920, he returned to Munich and went to work full-time for the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party), which was headquartered in that city. [1] He rented a small bedroom at Thierschstrasse 41 from 1920 to 1929. Later, he rented a second room to use as an office.
The Königsplatz, a square for the Nazi Party's mass rallies, is in sighting distance. The cornerstone for the building was laid in March 2012. [2] The museum opened to the public in May 2015. [3] The architectural historian Winfried Nerdinger , who helped to establish the centre, served as its first director. [4]
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.
The Nazi Party headquarters were in Munich and many Führerbauten ("Führer-buildings") were built around the Königsplatz, some of which have survived to this day. During the Night of the Long Knives in 1934, Hitler eliminated potential political rivals.
During the Nazi era, the building served as a symbolic building for Adolf Hitler. It is also notable as the site of the signing of the historic 1938 Munich Agreement, under which Czechoslovakia was forced to cede the Sudetenland to Germany. Hitler himself signed the document in his office in the building.