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| DIE GROSSE HALLE PROJECT IN BERLIN The project was sketched by Hitler and designed by Albert Speer, Hitler's non official architect but entitled as GBI (Generalbauinspektor) with the rank of State Secretary. The Globe or Große Halle ( Great dome) and his infrastructure were scheduled for completion in 1950. It would have accomodated FOUR TIMES the St Peter basilica in Rome for a total volume of 741 million of cubic feet and an area of 22,500 sq.feet. Inside the Globe, 10 columns would be 98 ft high of red granite of 10 ft. in diameter which were already quarried in Sweden at the beginning of the war. A solid slab of 1050 feet by 1050 feet was supposed to be posed on the ground at a depth of 106 ft to compensate for the sandy soil of Berlin which would have been renamed Germania. From here, der Führer could have addressed 180,000 happy listeners. The nazi regime was nothing but a huge staged parody of Government based on the principle of the "ruin value". |
In the same spirit, Hitler and Speer
planned an Arc of Triumph which would
be 400 ft. high (vs. 160 ft. for the Paris's
Arc de Triomphe) with the names of 1,8
million dead German soldiers of WW1
chiseled on its walls.
After the war, Speer recognized
although a little to late that "our plan for
Berlin completely lacked a sense of
proportion. We deprived ourselves of
all the contrasts essential for animating
amd loosening the pattern. The entire
conception was stamped by a
monumental rigidity that would have
counteracted all our efforts to
introduce urban life into this avenue."
(picture to the left)
planned an Arc of Triumph which would
be 400 ft. high (vs. 160 ft. for the Paris's
Arc de Triomphe) with the names of 1,8
million dead German soldiers of WW1
chiseled on its walls.
After the war, Speer recognized
although a little to late that "our plan for
Berlin completely lacked a sense of
proportion. We deprived ourselves of
all the contrasts essential for animating
amd loosening the pattern. The entire
conception was stamped by a
monumental rigidity that would have
counteracted all our efforts to
introduce urban life into this avenue."
(picture to the left)
The crazy projects of architect Adolf
| We could almost thank him and his boss to have also so well contributed to the destruction of all those hideous urbanistic plans deprived of all human feelings. Did Hitler have a soul ? How could he ? He did not even have a decent eye for architecture. |
| Sketches of the project of the European Culture Center in Linz Austria |
| This monstruousity would have dwarfed the Paris Arc de Triomphe because such were Hitler's architectural visions and ambitions |
| After the war, Hitler was said to have lacked any sense of proportion in his paintings. The reality was worse : he lacked all sense of proportions in everything because he was untrained and monstruously egotist |