Pictures of Germania

Gotthard Heinrici · 20-02-2008, 03:14 PM

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

Here are some good photos and illustrations:

April 15, 1999

Harry Ree · 20-02-2008, 04:54 PM

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

pzjgr · 20-02-2008, 05:05 PM

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.

Gotthard Heinrici · 20-02-2008, 05:11 PM

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!!!

von Poop · 20-02-2008, 06:41 PM

I see Speer's son is still in business:
AS & P - Albert Speer und Partner GmbH - Neues
That's a heck of a name to carry as a longstanding German architect

.

Nazi Architect's Son Has His Own Designs - Newser

pzjgr · 20-02-2008, 08:20 PM

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

Harry Ree · 21-02-2008, 10:02 AM

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.

Gotthard Heinrici · 21-02-2008, 10:16 AM

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?"

Za Rodinu · 01-03-2008, 12:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pzjgr

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.

20-02-2008, 03:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
Gotthard Heinrici Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 3,667	Pictures of Germania Want to see Hitler's vision for Berlin after the war? Here are some good photos and illustrations: April 15, 1999 __________________ *"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."* - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)

20-02-2008, 05:05 PM	#3 (permalink)
pzjgr Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Great State of TEXAS Posts: 24	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. __________________ American by birth, TEXAN by the grace of GOD!

20-02-2008, 05:11 PM	#4 (permalink)
Gotthard Heinrici Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 3,667	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!!! __________________ *"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."* - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)

20-02-2008, 06:41 PM	#5 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 8,040	I see Speer's son is still in business: AS & P - Albert Speer und Partner GmbH - Neues That's a heck of a name to carry as a longstanding German architect . Nazi Architect's Son Has His Own Designs - Newser __________________ It's only the Internet.

20-02-2008, 08:20 PM	#6 (permalink)
pzjgr Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Great State of TEXAS Posts: 24	Who could blame the guy. A difficult life to live under his father's shadow. __________________ American by birth, TEXAN by the grace of GOD!

20-02-2008, 04:54 PM	#2 (permalink)
Harry Ree Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 609	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

21-02-2008, 10:02 AM	#7 (permalink)
Harry Ree Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 609	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.

21-02-2008, 10:16 AM	#8 (permalink)
Gotthard Heinrici Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 3,667	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?" __________________ *"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."* - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)

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