Hitler's Berlin
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- TheBlueOne
"What if..." Germany won WW2? Berlin would've looked like this:
More here:
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostreck…
- TheBlueOne0
Background story here: http://www.time.com/time/arts/ar…
Alternate history and architecture fascinate me...
- utopian0
Interesting prespective, however is this even relevant?
- As relevant as most of your commentsJKilla77
- relevant to...? Sure. It's architecture, design, etc...TheBlueOne
- relevant to what?mrdobolina
- sorry I didn't see the other responses.mrdobolina
- Just because Hitler is attached to it should it be taboo and never discussed? Of course it's relevant.********
- drgs0
Design by himself
Theres a story about how he loved hearing news about german cities being bombed, because he immediately sat down planning how he would rebuild them with his own architecture
When he with time learned about other aspects of bombing, he fell into depression
- ********0
I was watching something about a proposed building in Russia that was in the process of being blue printed during like WWI or WWII I believe...
The artist's renditions would make it the biggest building ... ever, even to today's standards I believe.
However there were fundamental flaws in the base that no one would bring up, and instead the mockups continued to circulate as if building had continued.
Also, given Russia's weather the top would not be visible like 364 days of the year, haha.
- think you mean this: http://en.wikipedia.…GreedoLives
- You are absolutely correct and my dates were way off, haha.********
- Thanks!********
- Llyod0
shit taste
- OSFA0
hmmm, I imagined it would be something like this..
- kona0
"Sir, I imagine it will take roughly a million people to build this city."
Hitler: Well, there's always the Jews, they did wonders building Egypt... oh wait... right.
(both laugh)
- 7point340
mein furher! i can walk!
- ********0
Thanks for the link BlueOne, I'm fascinated about all things WWII. I think it may have something to do with all the stories my father told me being a young child living in Berlin while it was being decimated by the allies.
As bat shit crazy as Hitler was, the man was very creative with art and architecture.
- are you batshit crazy? he wasn't creative at all. his paintings were average at best, and he only had a sensevrmbr
- for grandeur. And only appreciated classicistic iconography. All the work wasvrmbr
- done by Albert Speer, who had the same meagre ideas about art.vrmbr
- decimate: 1/10th, roman punishment for dishonor. You mean obliterate.********
- Llyod0
he was no jefferson
- ********0
Wow, if any of you have ever stood in front of the Brandenburg Gates you'd realize how big this would have been. Amazing.
- big, but backward design. They should have pushed the Bauhaus rather than shutting them down.ribit
- hitler wanted the new rome, not some decadent modernist nightmareGreedoLives
- I like decadent modernist nightmaresribit
- ********0
"With all 180,000 seats occupied, the condensed breath of the people would have accumulated in the dome and caused a rainfall."
- creative-0
That is pretty damn awesome
- mrdobolina0
//Hey Chris, don't forget your hat.
- I won't. It's right beside my arm band.********
- hahahamrdobolina
- I won't. It's right beside my arm band.
- TheBlueOne0
"Laughing With Hitler: Humor in the Third Reich"
http://video.google.com/videopla…
Very interesting. Reminds me of Fox News.
- GreedoLives0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naz…
Hitler always had a soft spot for Nuremberg, it being an old imperial seat. He even dragged the holy roman imperial regalia back from Vienna after the 'Anschluss'...