Pictures of Germania

Want to see Hitler's vision for Berlin after the war?

Here are some good photos and illustrations:

April 15, 1999

 

Germania, in the glorious year of victories became a favourite name for girls born during 1940.

You will see Germi often used informally for the name and which records the history of this era.

While Berlin was under siege in April 1945, Hitler was still stooping over the drawing board and discussing his post war plans for Berlin and his favourite town, Linz

 

Amazing. I can almost hear Hitler saying to Speer "there are postive results to this boming, it is easier to clear away rubble than to demolish it" as in the movie Downfall. I wonder if he was planning to do a Nero if it were not for the war.

 

I love the story Speer told about the problems they had in designing the dome of the Kupferhalle. It was so big that there was an issue with indoor rainfall originating from the Hot air emanated by der fuehrers loyal followers!!!

 

Who could blame the guy. A difficult life to live under his father's shadow.

 

Good photographs of the era of Speers Nazi modern classical creatability.Compare these with the state of the Chancellery after the Russians had taken Berlin and the looters had visited.

One of the Goebbels propaganda lines was that the Fuehrer and himself always had tidy desks,which in Goebbels mind demonstrated that him and the Fuehrer had tidy minds and was a personality trait that the regime wished to pass on to the German people.All part of the propaganda machine that these were the men on whose desks, the policy for the good of the German people and world political decisions were made and honed.

 

Every time I see pictures of the Reich Chancellery and see its vastness I'm always reminded of the quote from the film "Shrek": "Do you think he's trying to compensate for something?"

 

Amazing. I can almost hear Hitler saying to Speer "there are postive results to this boming, it is easier to clear away rubble than to demolish it" as in the movie Downfall. I wonder if he was planning to do a Nero if it were not for the war.

Actually one of Speer's concepts was what he called "ruin value", that is, that the structures themselves might look good when in a ruin state. See for example the Pyramids or the Parthenon as the basis for this idea of his.

 

Every time I see pictures of the Reich Chancellery and see its vastness I'm always reminded of the quote from the film "Shrek": "Do you think he's trying to compensate for something?"


ha,ha,ha,ha,.... , that was funny !!!

 

There's no denying the guy was an architectual genius. I feel sorry for his son though, having to live his life under his fathers reputation.

I can only imagine how gutted Hitler must have been when he finally realised his dream would never become a reality.

 

Germania, in the glorious year of victories became a favourite name for girls born during 1940.

You will see Germi often used informally for the name and which records the history of this era.

While Berlin was under siege in April 1945, Hitler was still stooping over the drawing board and discussing his post war plans for Berlin and his favourite town, Linz

I missed this Harry.

You were lucky enough to get our "dinkum Aussie" Germaine Greer who left Australia to live in England.

She, for those who are not aware is the author of "The Female Eunich"

Germaine Greer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Is there much left of Speer's legacy? Not sure if much remains.

 

They are fascinating articles. Is that the Clive James of Television fame, i.e. the Australian Clive James?

 

I seem to recollect that some demolition work was carried out for part of the New City, but I am having problems with my memory and cannot recall when or where.

Regards
Tom

 

Speer tested the ground in Berlin and found that it was totally unsuited for the buildings which Hitler had demanded , structures of the kind planned would just sink and subside.

Tony Le Tissier's Berlin book for ATB shows what remains of the test sites and discusses the projected plans for Berlin - the clearances which were started for this massive rebuild and the meagre funding which was set aside for it.
The money which were supposed to fund it in its first year were insufficent even to cover the planning costs.

WW2 saved Hitler - had he tried to build Germania and reaarm he would have bankrupted the country.

 

Speer tested the ground in Berlin and found that it was totally unsuited for the buildings which Hitler had demanded , structures of the kind planned would just sink and subside.

Tony Le Tissier's Berlin book for ATB shows what remains of the stest sites and discusses the projected palkns for Berlin - the clearnaces which were started for this massive rebuild and the meagre funding which was set aside for it.
The money which were supposed to fund it in its first year were insufficent even to cover the planning costs.

WW2 saved Hitler - had he tried to build Germania and reaarm he would have bankrupted the country.

Indeed James, Berlin does have a big problem with the water table and keeping the water at bay.