Germania - Hitler’s redevelopment plans for Berlin

Panorama-b’s multi-media tour „Berlin during the Third Reich“ was designed in cooperation with the Berlin Underworlds Association. It complements their permanent exhibition Mythos Germania, shown in their rooms at Gesundbrunnen underground station.
The two-hours long tour is centered around Wilhelmstrasse, the government quarter of the former Reich capital, whose history and architecture is illustrated through video and audio clips as well as numerous historical photographs.
The first tour stop introduces the redevelopment plans Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer had for Berlin. It focuses on the 6 kilometres long North-South Axis with the Great Hall as the architectural highlight.
Moreover, 40 short descriptions of prominent Nazi buildings and building ensembles are integrated into our app, presenting the wide spectrum of Nazi construction activities in Berlin. The panorama-b app is available for iphone and Android devices.

[@steadyjumper3547]

The alternate timeline in which Hilter became an Architect after dropping out of Art school

[@benjaminphelps561]

😂 if only

[@lgay1927]

the thing is he have the potential to become an architect

[@thatcanadian6698]

Think about this: what if Hitler actually had some real artistic talent and decided to stick with art and not gotten into politics at all? Would the world be better off now or possibly worse in some unimaginable way?

[@bingus8135]

@@lgay1927 wasn't this designed by Albert speer?

[@robertnoke3415]

@@lgay1927 he was shit glad he didnt

[@henrikparsgaard9648]

The people who are saying this looks horrendous are the same people who think boring square Glass towers is good architecture

[@vksasdgaming9472]

It is horrendous. Too bulky to look good in that humongous scale. Square glass towers are also boring. Empire State Building is beautiful building.

[@thenewstanza9069]

This is literally subjective, but I do like this style of architecture wayyy more than modern day Architekten.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

@@thenewstanza9069 Neoclassicism.

[@Freyia935]

@@vksasdgaming9472 Meanwhile, the Roman Empire is like ....

[@kiwimiwi8722]

@@vksasdgaming9472 The Empire State Building is practically just a glass tower with randomly placed sections across the sides.

[@metapolitikgedanken612]

And nowadays the Berliners can't even finish a simple airport.

[@tsarpeteri8578]

Metapolitik Gedanken you are an idiot. This is the most incompetent thing hitler has done to Germany.

[@5mnz7fg]

"And nowadays the Berliners can't even finish a simple airport." Thanksfully, Hitler's megalopolis hasn't even started.

[@bakeddogg1674]

@@5mnz7fg They did build impressive things though like many Autobahns, rhine bridges or the Uboat bunkers in france, which still cannot be destroyed today because of their impressive strength

[@Paul-nr6nm]

@@amsolicurio He didn't start it though

[@jamesricker3997]

The ground in Berlin is too soft to support such massive structures Those buildings would not have lasted long which would be good because the Third Reich was economically unsound and would not have survived past 1950

[@thatsnodildo1974]

"the great hall would be built where you are now standing" *Me in North Carolina confused*

[@Sightseeing_Berlin]

Don't be confused 😉. This video was created as a contribution for our on site city tour app "Video Guide Berlin". This explains the choice of words.

[@yoshibutkagekira7899]

@@Sightseeing_Berlin Im amazed you still answer comments 5 years after this video was made

[@eliharman]

Maybe the Folkshalle was within us all along?

[@thatsnodildo1974]

@@eliharman perhaps it is. Or maybe just ever expanding?

[@knenda1]

It would have been very attractive place for tourists.

[@didi_mega_dudu]

There wouldn't have been many tourists after they were done with their other plans.

[@DisHappah]

white tourist only.

[@DisHappah]

@@caleb2507 there wouldn't be any non white tourist that's for sure.

[@DisHappah]

@@caleb2507 that my friend is a load of bullshitmif I've ever heard one. Have you ever read his Mien Kampf book? Well, I have. Yes, it would have been a great life for people only if you were of you're Arian race. No body else.

[@DisHappah]

@@caleb2507 well, I'm a Trump supporter, conservative atheist. Its sad to see where America is going and how youtube has censored you for which I don't agree with. However, Hitler can go to hell and I'm happy they lost.

[@Lichcrafter]

It kind of says something when you literally have artillery guns along the main walkway

[@Wmoore1]

Facing the tourist, no less.

[@tetra9203]

Wow, It's hard to imagine the scale and scope of this vision, even with the cgi !

[@tsarpeteri8578]

Tetra 9 he was insane right!?

[@fordhamdonnington2738]

That’s not cgi, Speer had scale model built of the entire design.

[@mggaduang9655]

You could see this design in the Man in the high castle.

[@IslandWork1]

@Armo Moose Computer Generated Image

[@tsarpeteri8578]

@Contemporary Political Podcast Collective my guy... those structures don’t take up the majority of the space. If this was created this would have covered all Berlin. Increase homelessness since these aren’t housing. A very Big flaw

[@ImpeRiaLismus]

Would make the city nicer. Modernist glass "temples" are not really pleasing to the eye.

[@erezmuslim227]

Exactly. Germania may be a bit much in terms of its size, but it looks better than the brutalist architecture we have today, polluting the skylines.

[@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179]

Pretty much. It looks far better than current modernist buildings. Most people loath those things and find them alienating, but architects keep on designing more of those glass and steel monstrosities. And that's not my opinion, it has been polled extensively. But architects shrug and keep going as if nothing is wrong. To those saying the Dome would be an eyesore on the skyline: would it really look any worse than the glass towers that pollute many modern cityscapes and that more closely resemble amoebas, dildos or fingers pointing? Also it isn't as if we don't know the way a city built in Neoclassic style looks like: Washington DC.

[@gretareinarsson7461]

It would have been totally horrible!The parliament buildings today are beautiful. But in general Berlin is not a beautiful city although it has many beautiful “corners”. It’s rough but always interesting. I remember when I first came to Paris how refreshing it was to see the Pompidou museum and Bastille Opera and the beautiful Instute du Mond Arabe among all the differently beautiful 19th century buildings that became so boring after a while.

[@IslandWork1]

@@gretareinarsson7461 I guess you're not talking about the Scottish Parliament building

[@gretareinarsson7461]

@@colonelsmith7757 It wasnt all beautiful before. Depends of course which neighborhood one is looking and wether one is looking at the front or the back of the buildings. Much mother’s neighborhood and the street where she was was born and grew up in in Berlin before the war was not exactly beautiful. However Berlin is extremely interesting city and not the least from an architectural point of view.

[@Sarah.J.Jacobson]

I really like this classical/Roman style. I really brings out a feeling of civic pride and responsibility. Plus this style is easier the eyes than a lot of "modern" and post-modern architecture. the glass, steel and concrete are hard on the eye because human eyes evolved to look at natural structures like wood, stone and vegetation.

[@MultiWalrus1]

You're thinking like a dictator. Hitler wanted the classical Roman style - just bigger. He wanted to dominate the individual and show off his power. If that's your preferred style, fine, just bear in mind that you share your tastes with some of the biggest low-lifes in history.

[@MultiWalrus1]

@Pipi Land_Unlimited not to Hitler it wasn’t! This was about imposing the power of the Third Reich for one thousand years.

[@cavemandude257]

@@MultiWalrus1 Whats is your Problem with moving forward in Human Evolution? The postmodern architecture is ugly. We are moving backwards. Lets build some real stuff. As you say, stuff for a thousand years. You dont have to live there. But People exist who would like it. If you dont tolerate it then well YOU are like a dictator

[@MultiWalrus1]

@@cavemandude257 but it’s not moving forward, is it? It was mimicking Roman architecture - just making it bigger. This was done to aggrandise Hitler himself, and to diminish the individual. Buildings like the Volkshalle were not on the human scale. The individual vanishes in such a place. That’s how Hitler wanted it - to make the individual insignificant, while showing off the power of the state. Personally, I’m glad to see we’ve moved past this in the west. If you want monumental architecture, go to North Korea 😂 they have the world’s biggest triumphal arch.

[@cavemandude257]

@@MultiWalrus1 for me its about beauty. Nothing else. I would like it and i wouldnt feel vanished as an individual. Maybe you have just ptsd from hitler and you cannot judge it right because hes evil Blabla

[@sovietspydamcapitalist1393]

We need capitals like these

[@warlordqueekheadtaker7960]

@Mr. Thomas yes we do

[@theviking2877]

No

[@kurvitaschthedictator]

but without the extermination and other nazi shit

[@bn2870]

That’s a lot of tax dollars. You’d have to be socialist to accomplish something like that.

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

No, we don’t. It’s fascist porn.

[@filipkovacina1236]

Honestly, I know that this project has been developed during the nazi time, but objectively it's a super cool project with could have been done, just because it was invented during nazism doesn't mean that they couldn't do it, even in italy we have plenty of projects made during the mussolini era that still stand today, such as the entire EUR neighborhood in Rome, the olympic village, the prati neighborhood, the Milan central station, and many many others, like the termini station in Rome or the Santa maria novella one in Florence. So what I want to say is that the people who have committed certain projects don't have to affect the development of those projects, it's wrong letting down these projects just because of the people who invented them, these are brilliant architecture projects!

[@marccamp6376]

Excellent said, I totally agree

[@damnationdan5253]

The Volkshalle would inevitably collapse if it was built. It doesn't matter if these projects 'look cool', it's a complete waste of resources and time.

[@mauhau3839]

Agree. It looked amazingly Cool !!

[@Matthew-cn4ml]

@@damnationdan5253 sabes algo de arquitectura o hablas por hablar que te hace creer que colapsaria?

[@damnationdan5253]

@@Matthew-cn4ml I don't have to be an architect to know what other architects say about the subject.

[@johnpaulkane5480]

Extremely impressive Speer was in a league by himself

[@neonskyline1]

I'd like to point out that they started destroying buildings in Britain as well, half of Newcastle was saved by one Man who had them all listed, thus stopping them from being pulled down

[@urthofthenewsun8465]

The council knows they can't touch Grainger Town, but it wouldn't surprise me if they put up another god awful 10 foot TV screen right in front of the Theatre Royal.

[@mauhau3839]

What aren’t they destroying ?

[@Garangus]

@@mauhau3839 whos "they"

[@georgeperez1212]

The man in the high castle shows this design in its show it’s pretty Awesome “inspiring”

[@WilhelmImperatorRex]

The Man in the High Castle actually screws everything. They turned Reichstag 90° and scattered buildings you actually find in the city center behind you from point of wiev randomly in the background. They just fu*ed it up bigtime🤷‍♂️

[@hitube1272]

@@WilhelmImperatorRex Are offended that they dramatized a maniac's imperial capital of racism?

[@WilhelmImperatorRex]

@@hitube1272 No, just telling that they don't show something awsome "inspiring". It's just crap.

[@balabanasireti]

@@WilhelmImperatorRex Nah, it's pretty inspiring. I don't care much about your nitpicking.

[@WilhelmImperatorRex]

@@balabanasireti Well, see thats the difference. I put atention to details and want it to be precise, because i am german. You're just some random human who knows nothing.

[@juanmanuelpenaloza9264]

Gotta admit, despite the twisted and warped mind of that man, he designs one helluva city.

[@tsarpeteri8578]

Juan Manuel Penaloza no he didn’t... where the fuck are you going to live if this was implemented? How are you going to shit? How are you going to drive to your destination? These factors hitler ignited during these plans. Albert Speer was the one that said these remarks... he wanted everything so big to be praised

[@PM17E5]

@@Mister_Magpie That guy is missing the best point though. Of course there would be bathrooms to shit in. But I bet you every single person who doesn't flush the toilet afterwards or shits all over the wall, would be sent to a camp. That alone would be worth all the downsides combined.

[@bigbluebuttonman1137]

Yeah. It would be a sight to see if it had ever been built...

[@GabGotti3]

No wonder Hitler failed as an art student, he was a plagiarist. Stole the swastika symbol from Hinduism, and wanted a city replicated as from some of the world’s greatest architecture. He literally had no originality.

[@ncrtrooper1782]

Ehhh I've seen better

[@ViceCitizen]

The Volkshalle could never have been built in Berlin. The ground is too soft to support it. There are half-sunken test foundations that still exist in the city.

[@thatdoppioguy1825]

They probably would’ve just did some insane project where they remade the entire area from the ground up practically

[@MK-rw1on]

@@thatdoppioguy1825 they would have needed to atleast dig 50 meters deep, which we cant even do today, so I think the project wouldnt have worken. tho things not being logical and still doing them is quite the Nazi thing to do, so I think the would have atleast heavily tried to do it.

[@randyjones3050]

I wonder if it could have been constructed with modern building technology? I imagine a modern dome would be much more lightweight than what could have been built 80 years ago.

[@lexus8018]

They wanted to build it on a river like wtf

[@Garangus]

Big Underground Building in Neu Berlin

[@GordonGarvey]

Although I wouldn't want to live in that world, this does look impressive.

[@potterpenguin7285]

@S Rohith Why not live in a world in which Hitler and the Nazis won the war and ruled the world? Think about that a second...

[@ithertzwhenip3656]

@@potterpenguin7285 most of the world would be dead, including me. Hitler wanted more "living space" for people with blonde hair and blue eyes basically it wouldnt be a suprise to me if hitler killed his japaniese allies (disclaimer) im NOT saying hitler DID kill his japaniese allies. I'm saying that in the event of a axis victory; hitler would probably of gone after asia or africa and at some point PROBABLY (this is just my oppinion) he would of gone after his japaniese and italian allies

[@potterpenguin7285]

@@ithertzwhenip3656 I know, the message I replied to has been deleted. Now it may look like I would want to live in a world, in which the Nazis won. I DON'T. The earth would be a terrible place. Stay safe! 💜👋🏽

[@ithertzwhenip3656]

@@potterpenguin7285 oh sorry for the misunderstanding dude, stay safe too

[@ProfShibe]

@@potterpenguin7285 Well you're living in the world where the communists won and the price is still very well being paid now "most of the world" is nonsense. Eastern Europe isn't the majority of the planet. A communist world is much more brutal than a NS one. Not that the NS one would be any fun for the "foreigners". It wouldn't.

[@TheSoundsOfFrank]

I highly recommend reading Albert Speers book: “Inside the Third Reich” as Speer goes into vivid detail on just HOW this all came to be .. and .. what was actually completed before Hitler lost all his freaking marbles and turned to his attempted NSDP/Nazi world domination. Speer wrote this while imprisoned for 20 years in Spandau from 1946 to 1966. A MUST read! 😎

[@adrianmartinez-lq5he]

If we take the buildings as art and not related to adolf it would be amazing

[@fionnbutler9039]

true

[@justlukas701]

yea

[@monsieur1936]

Well do you mean these particular buildings? It would have been horrible for the people living in the City. And also spending so much money into buildings of useless politicians is another horrible idea.

[@adrianmartinez-lq5he]

@@monsieur1936 even the Soviet ones just as art not related to idiology

[@monsieur1936]

@@adrianmartinez-lq5he totalitarian architecture is less of an art and more a power projection of the government. They are never good for people.

[@grandjean5605]

It seems that it was the only grandiose project since Roman time to really create a new living style and society...

[@vvolf26]

Not the only one Soviets had similar projects kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5zPaGloqMiCm5I kzbin.info/www/bejne/eITcgId7jbOngKs

[@Nonamearisto]

Tell that to Paris, London, New York, Washington DC, possibly Vienna and Madrid. Possibly even Lisbon, if you accept small-scale rebuilding too.

[@paullouisj.2739]

thats why he called himself the 3rd reich. as in the 3rd world power after the egypts and the romans.

[@ivlivsvalerivsmaiorianvs3884]

@@paullouisj.2739 no the first Reich was the Holy Roman Empire dissolved by Napoleon. The second was the German empire dissolved after ww1 and therefore Hitler created the third Reich or third German empire

[@timcahill4676]

@@paullouisj.2739 don’t know where on earth you heard that. Hitler considered the Roman Empire and the British empire to be the most significant empires anyway

[@Checkmate07351]

This place looks like the capitol from hunger games.

[@ninjanutzforfun1105]

Panem I think it's spelled

[@rahadityap2375]

The Panam capitol hunger games was actually inspired by the Germania welthaupstadts design. For your information the main dome planned on germania welthaupstadts are planned to have capacity over 180,000 - 300,000. While Nazi has also planned to built a giant stadium called Deustche stadium in Berlin with capacity over 500,000 - 700,000

[@SergioLongoni]

The Hunger Games Panem was mostly shot in Berlin. The palace is the Tempelhof Airport also built in the 30s

[@Sarah.J.Jacobson]

I think the capital was inspired my Rome. The word panem is latim for bread.

[@briane3657]

The Chrysler Building in News York is a beautiful high rise in the Art Deco Style. There are also glass high rises that avoid just being a square box. Not as many as I would wish, but economics usually drives most building designs to be practical and familiar.

[@mortred4144]

Chrysler is beautiful but Woolworth is even better. I just hate plain boxed style glass skyscrapers.

[@MerryChristmasEra]

@@mortred4144 Agree

[@caroldesarnoNeNe45]

I worked on the 38th floor of the Chrysler Building...... The Lobby and the elevators were spectacular.......... I was Lucky enough to go to the top and look out the triangular windows at the Top....... The View from all sides was Amazing.... The Whole Building was Solid and Absolutely Constructed with The Best Materials of the day..... If you are ever In New York...... You have to Visit this amazing space....!!!

[@alissonlares2926]

Box buildings is a real comunist thing. Look at any socialist/comunist country, every building is just a boring box. And make a box of glas is just a good way to hide this style. Now look at any big modern city. Just big glass towers.

[@fkr9032]

looks kinda like the boulevard from Theed in Star Wars. espexially with the towers, columns and such

[@JasonRMJ]

F Kr except the domes aren't numerous

[@dunamoose3446]

yes

[@marccamp6376]

I like Theed, I lake all of these palaces, towers and domes

[@ghastlyghandi4301]

How ironic that hitler thought everything about German culture but wanted to rename the capital of Germany into the Latin name for Germany.

[@TheAlps36]

I'm pretty sure he saw the Third Reich as the new Roman Empire

[@xanshen9011]

No shame in admitting that another civilization is superior to yours and you take inspiration from them. Hitler greatly admired both the Romans and Chinese despite neither being germanic. The Romans themselves were inspired from the Greeks and the Greeks from the Egyptians.

[@venmis137]

iirc he thought that the roman empire was established by aryans, and that's why it was so great (but apparently modern italy wasn't led by aryans and that's why it was bad). He was willing to admire other empires so long as he could somehow convince himself that they're successes were the result of "aryans". At least that's what I recall.

[@logat1847]

@@venmis137 not true, like said earlier he appreciated ancient Chinese civilization

[@MMadesen]

Thats a misconception. While I agree that Hitler is a hypocrit, he never intended to rename Berlin. Germania was simply the name of the project.

[@henrikandreason7261]

The man in the high castle gives the exact imagery of what it would have been.

[@acengland82]

you really believe that? whatever helps you find personal peace no matter the cost

[@henrikandreason7261]

@@acengland82 yes , a clandestine shining prison with claws of terror in its underbelly.

[@rome316ae3]

The megacity looks better than most american cities today

[@user-dx8jm3ih7b]

so cool thanks for the upload

[@benjaminmairs9302]

I saw the cannons lined up and I switched off my targeting computer😂 The force will be with you

[@thiqolino8121]

Very informative!

[@Sightseeing_Berlin]

Glad you liked it

[@MTC008]

@@Sightseeing_Berlin if this is constructed it would be like that forbbiden city in china

[@GodOfVictory501]

This audio guide reminds me of one of the early chapters of 'Fatherland' by Robert Harris - the main character March takes his son for a trip on an open top tour bus in 1960s Nazi Berlin (in the novel's alternative history) and the guide describes in detail the new Berlin, including captured artillery from the Soviet campaign that line the avenue and the clouds that formed within the Great Dome from the collective respiration of 150 thousand people. Great novel by the way.

[@lemonde3415]

Do you know where the old models are now?

[@Sightseeing_Berlin]

The original one was destroyed. The one we are showing in the video is to be visited at Berliner Unterwelten: www.berliner-unterwelten.de/en/myth-of-germania/permanent-exhibition.html

[@cal3207]

I appreciate the lack of ominous music which always feels like propaganda.

[@pigeon_the_brit565]

that great domed building kind of reminds me of modern skyscrapers, almost being tall for the sake of tallness being impressive but with no fine detail which really sets the mind on fire. I'd say there are buildings ten times as small as that that appear all the more impressive because of the immense artistry that went into it. this just looks like a city made to cause fear through the brute force of size. the removal of entire historic districts is by no means limited to the nazis, especially here in British town council members were quite happy to cut lesions into cities and destroy their identities for the sake of roads and 'modernising' in this process they destroyed entire florishing comunities and this is a story told countless times across the world. Obviously, iam in no way defending the nazis but it needed to be said.

[@RenoDW]

That actually does look impressive

[@pebkac1245]

makes sense that the buildings would serve little purpose other than filling space. it woulda been way too expensive to upkeep, but it woulda been interesting

[@theindividualaviator1762]

They would have also made a series of underground roads underneath the city where most of the people would use to travel. While only people in government positions and VIP'S would drive on the surface of city in order to keep the city clean.

[@MikMoen]

All built with "Uberconcrete" no doubt.

[@bigbluebuttonman1137]

"We added a touch of ARYAN to the concrete...it makes it stronger... ...It's very scientific..."

[@bigbluebuttonman1137]

Zafar Sharif I already knew that. I was parodying Nazis.

[@WilhelmImperatorRex]

@@duckdefender8655 No, your wrong! Take a look into a proper history book!

[@suryanshsingh4533]

@Deo Macnamara no , Western Aryans also intermixed with local populations that is why , they have blonde and red hair and colored eyes , these features weren't present in original Aryans , they mostly had black to brown hair and dark colored eyes.

[@marcokreva9621]

@@suryanshsingh4533 I don't know which people you are referring they intermixed whit but the aryans were blond cocasians and taller that the average man today and whit blue eyes there for why all the ancient gods had blue eyes. We found mummies whit this features in Central Asia,ancient Egipt and western China but over time this people intermixed whit other groups of people whit darker skin eaven the name "arab" in Hebrew means to get darker but you can still find Blu eyes people Blond hair and whiter skinned in the middle east but not for long since the "introduction" of ISIS. Please don't get angry and have a good day.

[@randomobserver8168]

One of those early photos seems to include the old redbrick General Staff HQ, which I wish had been preserved along with other sites from the pre-1938 district. Both from Speer and from the war. But in their absence, this version of Berlin isn't any uglier than the one that has actually emerged.

[@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179]

That's key. What actually was built instead. Personally I find modernist buildings horrid. This wouldn't look half bad. And there's precedent on building a Capitol City in the Neoclassic style: Washington DC.

[@user-sr6cl1kb9b]

It just looks like a massive prison to me

[@davidrowan6556]

where can I get the 3d file off this so I can't 3d print it

[@doctor-atuti]

It's an original model, it's not computer generated

[@robert9016]

3:34 I’m relieved that the great hall isn’t in my flat in Cincinnati

[@luxaeterna31]

Thank you for the well done video using the architectural scale models that were proposed for a new vision of the Third Reich. The architecture's overblown proportions were intended to convey a sense of awe and Nationalism of the new German ascension to power... through Totalitarianism. It was based on Roman grand architecture, and the streamlined geometry of the Art Deco period of the 30's.

[@chisinau1302]

3:32 I'm surprised nobody joked about this moment.

[@chillvader3435]

I don’t get it what is so funny ?

[@AngelLovestovlog]

I don't get it

[@chisinau1302]

@@AngelLovestovlog It's not actually that funny, but the thing is that he says the Volkshalle would have been in the place where you are now standing, and just imagine the hall being in the place you are being right now. I just thought i'd see some stupid jokes about that.

[@F_And]

@@chisinau1302 not funny

[@chisinau1302]

@@F_And and did I say that it's so funny? Humour is subjective, mein Freund.

[@oznelnavnaekal6679]

If you have watched "The Man in The High Castle" you would interpret how Germania Welthauptstadt would have been in real life.

[@buchenheimer]

Who ever build the pyramids must have been impressed by the Germans during WW2.

[@BarryMckockinner]

This is what i listen to to fall asleep and its educational 😌

[@ruhrgebietflair5444]

Das regierungsviertel ist irgendwie ziemlich leer

[@casiopistachio1107]

I actually really like the aesthetic

[@andreasmichaelalbold9056]

Gibt es das auch in Deutsch?

[@Sightseeing_Berlin]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/inTckGhmbLl6adU

[@skwizzzb3904]

so thats why berlin maps have so much digs around the building

[@Brakvash]

I can't fault Speer here, he made some breathtaking monolithic architecture.

[@paulvanbeurden]

Megalomanic Vision,inspired by old Rome,but it would be Unique in the World and a symbol of Human Power!

[@Cobraman8447]

No more of a symbol of the power of the Nazi ideology. And as any sane person knows that ideology was horrible.

[@ithertzwhenip3656]

It would of been a symbol of hate and descrimination led by a crazy inbred man who cant wven grow a proper moustache

[@bobbuilder5902]

@@ithertzwhenip3656 Inbred? I dont think there's any evidence to prove that. And he cut his mustache that way so it would fit underneath a gas mask....you know, because he fought in WWI.

[@firemangan2731]

Imagine the cost...

[@fabriziomanuel7779]

Slaves

[@Herodollus]

The healthiest economy in europe...

[@solidus1995]

Very interesting layout. I like it.

[@jaygee6738]

It would have been something to be in attendance at one of Hitler's speeches, if only for the historical perspective.

[@owlan99]

Would be cool if they built it in a city that has had most of its traditional architecture destroyed I.e Dresden. Leave cities with traditional architecture alone and build this on one full of modernist/postmodernist architecture

[@marccamp6376]

Nice idea, sounds like some kind of "Fenix City, reborn from ashes"

[@pkl8811]

Regardless the politics Germania looks a 1000 x better than today's Berlin.

[@Cobraman8447]

Nazi does not equal politics

[@DavBlc7]

And it would have been built by forced workers from most of Europe, probably working to death.

[@cmj199318]

@@DavBlc7 that’s how the pyramids were built

[@jettmclachlan1804]

@@cmj199318 5000 years ago. Also they weren't built by slaves.

[@boliosbread]

@@jettmclachlan1804 you're right they were built by wage slaves

[@theknave1915]

This looks more like the capital of a high fantasy empire today. Right out of the pages of a novel.

[@sadenb]

you can do it in age of empires

[@skjaldulfr]

For being a celebration of Germania you'd think it would look more Gothic and less Classical (Greek/Roman.)

[@clarkewi]

Hitler and Speer should have stuck to architecture instead of war.

[@Paul-nr6nm]

Well read what they say - they didn't want a war, Hitler said the war robbed him from what he wanted to do, which was to build lol

[@clarkewi]

@@Paul-nr6nm That's bullshit. Liebensraum - the "Ost front" was a land grab and a theft. Unfortunately, they (Naxi's) couldn't pull it off. 30 million dead, including millions of civilians.

[@jelly.212]

@@Paul-nr6nm Go read some real history books kid

[@calebmcfarland8407]

ngl this would of been dope

[@jonivuoristo7049]

Englannin kielisen päälle puhumisen siasta olisin suositellut tekstitystä. Saksan kieltäkin voi toki opiskella.

[@timothyw7402]

Reminds me of the capitol in the hunger games

[@Hyonyx]

Timothy Walroud they actually had Germania in mind while designing the capitol. They even said that they focused strongly on the nazi architecture

[@vincitomniaveritas3981]

Stop watching Hollywood nonsense

[@doctor-atuti]

@@vincitomniaveritas3981 Should we watch Bollywood then? Hollywood is basically the entire American film industry. Some of the best movies are made by Americans...

[@auag5968]

@@doctor-atuti watch student film projects 🤣🤣

[@doctor-atuti]

@@auag5968 I'm alright, thanks. I would rather watch Bollywood.

[@fonziebulldog5786]

And they exported all the stone from my country Sweden to that place. And then it was never built.

[@jamesorth6460]

There was once a Germania, Kansas

[@islandnites]

Well, the allies had a little different redevelopment plan of their own - kinda displaced Adolph's.

[@tripakastayw6872]

Even tho hitler bad he has nice buildings tho

[@Garangus]

Famous last words before becoming a nazi

[@Jp-do9ny]

@@Garangus Sigma male seems very easily upset

[@Garangus]

@@Jp-do9ny I was being ironic then, but I get what you mean.

[@EvilSmonker]

Looks a lot like our national Mall in D.C., guess copying Rome never gets old...

[@igap6304]

Because ancient Rome was magnificent ✨

[@neo-noiranathubronthan6045]

1:37

[@CHAOSDixieMan]

Wolfenstein: The New Order brought me here. One of the levels is set up in new Berlin ("Germania") and you can see the gigantic Volkshalle in the background.

[@GoodVideos4]

Architects said that that huge dome could not have been built.

[@ryack6355]

Aquarius1011 All architects? Because I'm pretty sure that Albert Speer would disagree!

[@Mksterk1998]

Aquarius1011 You underestimate German engineering.

[@johnconcerto8721]

They would have found a way, this is the Nazi regime we are talking about.

[@bryanmanuel4945]

Albert Speer isn't a ordinary architect.

[@potterpenguin7285]

To all the people saying:"Well they were good architects"...🤦🏽‍♂️ There are these things called "laws of physics". Somethings are just not viable. Furthermore the ground in Berlin is too soft, it would've sunken in...😊

[@inhabitantwaps3qs803]

this is so similar to theed from star wars

[@josephmassaro]

Am I the only one who thought the thumbnail was from Raiders of the Lost Ark?

[@IFist]

Germany - English word for the country, Deutschland - word for the same country used by its people. Question - was this new city to be called Germania? Or Deutschlandia?

[@kodylangham]

I'm pretty sure it comes from the Romans because they called germany Germania.

[@pyrorock8143]

English: Germany German: Deutschland Spanish: Alemania Italian: Germania French: Alemanie Portuguese: Alemanha Polish: Niemcy Dutch: Tyskland Luxembourgish: Däitschland Czech: Nemecko Danish: Tyskland Russian: Germaniya Hungarian: Németország Swedish and Norwegian: Tyskland Finnish: Saksa Greek and Latin: Germanía

[@MMadesen]

It wasnt a new city. It was a redevelopement plan for Berlin. The city would still have been called Berlin, Germania was just the documents name of this project.

[@yeezyyankie324]

Everybody gangsta until Hitler fails architecture school

[@easycake3251]

Anyone else getting Washington DC vibes while watching this? Or is it just me ?

[@codybrox4693]

Everyone say what you want but at least it’s better looking than steel and glass everywhere I’m only asking for actual architectures to start designing buildings again not these brutalist hacks

[@fifervonpiper6707]

I feel like it'd be more cost effective to just build a really tall statue of Hitler instead of a colossal stand-up comedy hall

[@morningstar9233]

The presenter was a very attractive, the buildings were not.

[@99mercury1]

The neoclassical style of this grandiose plan might appeal to a conservative taste which stresses the importance of tradition. To a certain degree, this city plan would be in accordance with Berlin's traditional architecture. However, the grotesquely exaggerated dimensions are not intended to create beauty.The grotesque dimensions actually exceed and destroy any well-balanced "classicism". This is a city and an architecture created to overwhelm, to inspire awe. It is inhumane brutalism.In this way it is no less brutal and inhumane than its counterpart, the concrete blocks and glass-and-steel towers of modernism.

[@felixguerrero6062]

This is not neoclassical, mate and respectfully, I disagree with your overall assessment. This is called Stripped Classicism and it was the premier architectural form of all WW2 powers, Italy, US, Soviet Union and Germany. The best expression of it was undoubtedly the Italian Stripped Classicism of Mussolini (in my opinion.) In America we call this style Federalism, as it was (and to a lesser extent, still is) used for the buildings of the Federal government. Stripped Classicism is a very versatile architectural language as it coherently engages with the insights of both modernism and classicism. That being said I do agree that the scale and proportions of Speer's works were unbalanced particularly the width of the central boulevard, but no, this is still far superior to either Brutalism or Postmodern architecture. A contemporary architect that is doing some amazing work in this style is Leon Krier, worth looking up.

[@user-tp2js9ej3g]

Looks like Rome

[@k...z]

They realy took tons of stuff from ancient EGYPT they even have Obelisks in the design

[@laroudoune]

it is strange this taste so particular in architecture among dictators. whether it is Hitler, Stalin, Caucescu, Kim the chubby of North Korea or the Chinese leaders, always this same need to destroy the old capital of the country in particular its center built with old historic houses to build imposing buildings there soulless, functional certainly but lacking in aesthetics pleasing to the eye. you need mastoc, sturdy walls, concrete thoroughly and above all always in the form of bunkers as if they were under siege. the avenues are very wide one can make several tanks roll in front, the gigantic places one can station whole regiments there. everything is out of proportion, unlike the narrowness of their mind. dictatorships have always favored the useful over the pleasant, even their paintings do not derogate from any fantasy. It is sad, dark and solemn like a prison door ...

[@micmul23]

After all only one structure was actually built: The "Schwerbelastungskörper" a test building testing weather the sand ground of Berlin would be able to carry these extremely heavy buildings.

[@IcelanderUSer]

How delusional and insane this would have been. The canons of defeated nations lines up. How nuts.

[@gamerx112]

for a militarist ideology it makes sense.

[@SFVnative]

They would have all looked different from each other like cars in a junkyard.

[@thatdoppioguy1825]

It was just a sketch, there’d probably be tanks, artillery, anything they could really fit. it’d basically be a gigantic feat tactic for any diplomats, seeing all that remains of dozens of nations cracked under this nation they were visiting, very imposing

[@malikase8426]

This is was hundred percent possible. For example Dubia in 1991 was desert 🏜️ and in 2024 it'd glass paradise.

[@johnjumper7066]

The lady who is the guide and speaking is so beautiful like a model and heavenly.

[@Dxco31]

You are supposed to be the chosen one, i told you ignore stalingrad

[@johnnysunday402]

This should all be attributed to Albert Speer, the true artist architect. Hitler lacked the artistic creativity for architecture design or even city planning. Hitler's little more than a side note in the design and functional layout of Germania. Albert Speer was the real man behind it's plan, Hitler just took the credit.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

It is more like Hitler giving general guidelines and Speer making them functional plans. Great artists (or craftsmen) need commissions to be great. Speer was not bad architect at all.

[@mangolassi5273]

@@vksasdgaming9472 exactly

[@user-ge8yn4ql4i]

The dubber is a bit annoying. Subs would be appreciated.

[@mrnobodymr8002]

Kim jong un:write that down

[@byronmorrow5238]

The Germania mania.

[@alvansmith2304]

The scale of the buildings really doesn’t translate. The dome was to be 300 m (1000 ft) tall. Being a a model, it gives the impression of being in scale with existing buildings. It’s not, and I don’t imagine it being an appealing cityscape.

[@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179]

Does it look any worse than a citiscape full of glass and steel towers that look like amoebas, dildos or fingers pointing?

[@Esafc-lb2sg]

@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 Yes, absolutely, given that it exists only as a reminder of the immense fascist power wielded by the Nazis.

[@ryananderson5202]

AUSTRIA / Hungarian Empires version of Berlin more like.

[@marcverus158]

I think this is still useable to build in the future, only without the Nazi symbols, but bundes symbols instead to make it and let it be a democratic city

[@thechimeraprotocol]

Not going to work,we don't have Uberconcrete™ Also,what are we going to use it for? The Volkshalle was built for attending speeches.

[@matheusferrao]

The main avenue looks good, but that main building is among the ugliest I have ever seen.

[@dutchman7623]

Who wants a tiny version of Washington DC in Prince Charles style?

[@fagundessouza25]

AI QUE LOUCURA

[@shaneembry7565]

Crazy to think the world would have revolved around Germany instead of the US.

[@Garangus]

They would have collapsed by 62. Russia would have stayed around in Siberia, they would have never reached England, and Italy would have jumped ship whenever possible. Assuming of course they could pull all of this off, Hitler's health was declining, and any victory, even a total one, would have caused the "economy" to collapse instantly.