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The Führermuseum, featuring a 150-metre (490 ft) long colonnade, was to contain the largest and most comprehensive painting collection in Europe, [5] built around the art the Nazis had looted from Western Europe and stolen from rich Jews in Germany. The museum would anchor the planned European Cultural Centre.
On 30 January 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. This event is known as the Machtergreifung (seizure of power). [1] In the following months, the Nazi Party used a process termed Gleichschaltung (co-ordination) to rapidly bring all aspects of life under control of the party. [2]
Nazi Germany, [i] officially known as the German Reich [j] and later the Greater German Reich, [k] refers to the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
The Greater Germanic Reich (German: Großgermanisches Reich), fully styled the Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation (German: Großgermanisches Reich der Deutschen Nation), [4] was the official state name of the political entity that Nazi Germany tried to establish in Europe during World War II. [5]
One of the main examples of Nazi architecture Stadio dei Marmi with Palace of the Italian Olympic Committee in the background, Rome Olympia-Stadion, Berlin The Kongresshalle of Nuremberg Guglielmo Marconi Square, EUR, Rome Genoa, Italy, the 2 skyscrapers in Dante Square, the tallest of which was designed by Piacentini and was the tallest ...
The Weimar Republic, [d] officially known as the German Reich, [e] was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
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.
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 ...