Every structure left to us by history
expresses the spirit of its builder
even if later used for other purposes.
The abandoned buildings
of the Nazi Party
serve as witnesses in stone
to a time that played host to the most
terrible events in German history.
BRUTALITY IN STONE
Nuremberg Rally grounds.
Only the most feeble mind
sees revolution only in terms of destruction.
We have seen the contrary: It is a gigantic construction!
Motifs on the Rally grounds.
Hitler's speech met with wild applause.
The Reich Symphony Orchestra closed the rally
with the 4th movement of Brahms' C-minor symphony.
Alfred Rosenberg then spoke the closing words.
Sieg! - Heil!
From the memories of the Auschwitz commandant,
Rudolf H�ss.
"In early 1942, the first transports arrived from upper Silesia.
They were all to be destroyed.
At first, the went calmly into the rooms
in which they were to be disinfected,
until some became suspicious and spoke of suffocation and death.
Then, a kind of panic ensued.
The ones standing outside were quickly herded into the chambers
and the doors were bolted shut.
In the next transport, the restless ones were rooted out
and not let out of sight.
If disorder was noticed,
the agitators were quietly led behind the building
and shot with a small-calibre weapon.
Many women hid their infants in the piles of clothes.
The Special Unit squads watched particularly closely,
and prevailed on the women until they took the children with them.
The burning was done at night,
to avoid stopping the next transport.
The timetable of each transport,
which was decided at the Reich transport ministry,
had to be strictly adhered to
in order to avoid congestion on the relevant train lines."
Congress hall construction site at the Rally grounds.
Construction ceased during the war.
The model is constantly growing.
Ever larger. German cultural creation continues, even during the war.
A goddess of victory, which will be 3 times bigger.
only in terms of destruction!
We have seen the contrary: It is a gigantic construction!
Sketches made by Hitler.
Images of the future.
Reshaping German cities.
Round table with Hitler, 8 June 1942.
Transcript:
"The people of continental Europe
must adopt Germanic thinking. To promote this,
the city of Berlin should be re-named 'Germania'.
This will create a major impression.
The name 'Germania' for the Reich capital city in its new form
fosters a feeling of unity between
all Germanic peoples and the capital.
The renaming of Berlin poses no technical problems, as demonstrated
by the renaming of Lodz as Litzmannstadt."
F�hrer's order from 20 August 1943.
"I need 1 million dwellings for bombed-out citizens.
I envisage a living area of about 3 by 4 metres.
The construction materials
are unimportant to me.
I can imagine mud huts or holes in the ground,
simply covered with planks.
Houses should be detached, built on allotments,
echoing towns and villages.
Hidden under trees on city outskirts, close to caves
or air-raid shelters and so forth."
From the BDM songbook
"We maidens sing", published by the Reich Youth Authority.
"Song of the Gueux".
"Now, brave sword, serve your lord, keep your word,
cast to earth the lion fierce that will us pierce...
and the bloodthirsty hordes.
May that breed's blood spray.
Approach, cowardly knaves, over debris and corpses.
Fatherland, we shall defend you, the enemies false blood
shall flow in torrents."