Totalitarian Architecture of the Third Reich.

[Fred]

There's the proof that Almain is a Romance country, set in stone by their own master architect, commissioned by der Fuehrer hinself! I always like Speer, the Good Nazi.

Walhalla is more proof that Germanic culture is derivative of Rome.

[Zyklop]

Please bring back NS-architecture, that's how churches are built today:


Dreifaltigkeitskirche - Vienna

[Loddfafner]

Speigel has an article on Wewelsburg.

Historians are certain that no such gatherings ever took place here, and suspect that even Himmler hadn't made up his mind how the two chambers were to be used. They have devised a major new permanent exhibition, due to open on April 15, to explode the myths attached to Wewelsburg and to explore the history of one of the most powerful and dreadful organizations of the Nazi regime.

In fact, the overriding impression is that everything about this castle is fake. The crypt resembles the set of a 1940s Hollywood movie about King Arthur and his knights. The arches in the "Hall of Generals" may be covered in medieval-looking stone, but are made of concrete. "It's an impressive example of how the SS and its architects tried to falsify and recreate history to justify their own ideology," said Schulte. "When you strip off the façade, there's nothing behind it."

[The Lawspeaker]

Frankly I think that the Germans should have used either German Baroque, German renaissance architecture or German Gothic.

















This is German architecture.

Germans are no Romans or Greeks.. and should not have tried to imitate them. The architectural style of choice shows all the more vividly that the Hitler-regime was not a nationalistic regime but one that merely used the Germans as a vessel for imperialism. A German nationalistic regime would choose a German style. Preferably even in accordance with local traditions. But then again.. the Hitler regime got rid of local traditions (also on a political level by abandoning the decentralization and the Länder and introducing a centralized regime where areas that had little in common with each other were just made part of a Reichsgau).

[Zyklop]

the Hitler regime got rid of local traditions (also on a political level by abandoning the decentralization and the Länder and introducing a centralized regime where areas that had little in common with each other were just made part of a Reichsgau).

Such as?

[The Lawspeaker]

Such as?

Just look at the maps of medieval Germany and the maps of the Reichsgaue (and to the map of present-day Germany (and also in former East Germany).
You'll see that particularly in the case of what is now North-Rhine Westphalia they simply threw areas together that were never together in the first place.

Holy Roman Empire:




As for Nazi Germany:




East German bezirke (basically not too different from the centralized Reichsgaue):




German States today:


You'll see that the map is completely unnatural. Look at for instance at Bavaria that was completely divided. At Austria, at the areas that were torn from their original foundations. You can see it all over this map of Germany. For instance: what became of Franconia?

A similar approach in Africa by the colonizing Europeans led to disasters that repeat to this very day.

[Zyklop]

You'll see that the map is completely unnatural.

Always good to have foreigners telling natives what is natural.

Look at for instance at Bavaria that was completely divided.

Bavaria indeed is culturally (even linguistically) divided between Oberbayern and Niederbayern and has been since centuries. Are you sure you are not just sticking your Dutch nose in issues you have no idea about?

For instance: what became of Franconia?

Reichsgau Franken during the Third Reich. As far as Southern Germany is concerned, the Reichsgaue were much more natural and traditional than what we have today. Even Swabia was separate.

A similar approach in Africa by the colonizing Europeans led to disasters that repeat to this very day.

Unbelievably stupid comparison.