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?