Post on 30-Jun-2015
NAZI ARCHITECTURE
HERMANN GIESLER
German architect during Nazi Era
Academy for Applied Arts in Munich
1933- Master of building of districts in Sonthofen
1937- professor
ORDENSBURG
Sonthofen Training area for DAF
German labor front ideological and
political training for party members of
the NSDAP Countryside to inspire political leaders of the
NSDAP instead of DAF
THE PLAN
2,500 people hall Indoor market Dining hall and
kitchen Hospital Theater Lecture halls Library Stadium Outdoor 100 meter
swimming pool
ORDENSBURG
ALBERT SPEER
Architect Minister of Armaments
and War Production for the Third Reich
"the Nazi who said sorry“
Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremberg Party rallies
Reich Chancellery
ZEPPELINTRIBUNE
Where rallies were held
Capable of holding 340,000 people
130 anti-aircraft searchlights
“cathedral of ice”
The Cathedral of light above the Zeppelintribune
REICH CHANCELLERY
Office for the chancellor of Germany
Now called Kanzleramt
Old and New Chancellery shared the large gardens with the underground Führerbunker, where Hitler committed suicide at the end of World War II in 1945.
Cost immaterial 4000 workers in
shifts Completed in
under a year Cost over 90
Million Reichsmark Over 1 billion
dollars todayNew Reich Chancellery: gallery, 1939.
Bronze eagle from the New Reich Chancellery at the Imperial War Museum.
Location of Old (15) and New Reich Chancellery (1) with Vorbunker and Führerbunker (10).
Nazis used the eagle to
associate their power with pagan gods and ancient empires
Similarities?Differences? Purpose?