While Hitler was said to have been dazzled by the building when he visited Brussels in the First World War – and his chief architect Albert Speer would write about the Palace of Justice as an ...

deals with Hitler's plans to turn Berlin into the "World Capital Germania". Albert Speer's detailed plans show that these were by no means dreams or vague ideas. The Underworlds Museum places the ...

Nazi architect Albert Speer was a close friend of Adolf Hitler’s, and they spent hours trying to imagine what Germania, the Reich’s future capital, would look like (spoiler: it had columns). Elements ...

The idea of Germania was Hitler's renewal of Berlin, a megacity he envisaged as a world capital after the Nazi's planned victory in the Second World War. Albert Speer, Hitler's architect ...

It also signalled a clear distance from the austere classicism of Nazi megalomaniac projects – most prominently Albert Speer’s Volkshalle in the new capital Germania (formerly Berlin). West Germans ...

Albert Speer was Adolf Hitler’s intimate and trusted friend ... Considering themselves artists engaged upon the great Gesamtkunstwerk of “Germania,” Hitler and Speer arrogated to themselves the ...

The Oxagon: the proposed port city would be the world’s largest “floating structure”.Credit: NEOM Hitler, aided by his chief architect Albert Speer, had ambitions to build Germania on the ...

Berlin was intended to be morphed into a city called Germania, which would have been dubbed the “World Capital” in plans drawn up by Hitler’s top architect Albert Speer. The idea of the Axis ...

Albert Speer, who served as Reich Minister of Armaments ... directly with Adolf Hitler with the plans to rebuild Berlin as Germania. Among the most ambitious of the buildings was the Volkshalle ...

Link The Victory Column stood in the way of the plans of Nazi architect Albert Speer. For the "World Capital Germania" envisioned by the National Socialists, a huge congress hall was to be built ...