Albert Speer

Albert Speer 1905-1981

● Born in Mannheim

● 1931 joined the Nazi Party

● 1937 appointed as General Building

Inspector for the Reich Capital

● 1942 Reich Minister of Armaments and

War Production
Hitler’s Architect

🙷For the commission to

do a great building, I
would have sold my soul
like Faust. Now I had
found my
Mephistopheles. He
seemed no less engaging
than Goethe’s.

- Albert Speer from Inside

the Third Reich
 Theory of Ruin Value

the word Monumentality

in stone

Prospective Cult of
memory victory
 Big, imposing, concrete: Zeppelinfield

https://worldwar2revisited.com/2015/03/04/zeppelinfeld-nuremberg/
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nazi-rally-cathedral-light-c-1937/
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nazi-rally-cathedral-light-c-1937/
Reich Chancellery (Neue Reichskanzlei)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1988-092-32,_Berlin,_Neue_Reichskanzlei.jpg
http://users.skynet.be/vonweyersberg/Reichskanzlei.htm
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-K1216-501,_Berlin,_Neue_Reichskanzlei,_Marmorgalerie.jpg
 Reshaping of Berlin: the myth of Germania
Video

http://www.rp-online.de/kultur/kunst/mythos-germania-so-wollte-hitler-berlin-umbauen-bid-1.1935143
http://www.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/medieninformationen/2014/september_2014/medieninformation_nr_1832014/
The “Good Nazi”

Video
References
Dahlke, Brigit ed.(2010).German Life Writing in the Twentieth Century. Camden House.

Fascist architecture in Germany http://greyfalcon.us/Fascist%20architecture%20in%20Germany.htm

Germania exhibition [https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/mythos-germania/dauerausstellung.html]

Kitchen, Martin (2015). Speer: Hitler's Architect. Yale University Press.

Nazi architecture, then and now – in pictures. Colin Philpott 2 June 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2016/jun/02/nazi-architecture-then-and-now-in-pictures

Speer, Albert (1997). Inside the Third Reich. Simon & Schuster; Reissue edition

Story of cities #22: how Hitler's plans for Germania would have torn Berlin apart
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/14/story-of-cities-hitler-germania-berlin-nazis

The Architecture of Evil. Roger Forsgren. http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-architecture-of-evil