| Chris PzTp | 24 Mar 2008 1:41 p.m. PST |
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DontFearDareaper  | 24 Mar 2008 1:53 p.m. PST |
There was a decent documentary on the subject of Germania on the History Channel a while back. Dave |
| mRgUnN | 24 Mar 2008 2:36 p.m. PST |
Good o'l Adolf and his mad cap crew of architects! Yep there was a History Channel program it was called Lost Worlds: Hitler's Supercity, my favorite part is that the test holes dug for his "Great Hall of the People" showed it would have sunk into the earth because the ground in Berlin is too soft. LOL Could not find USA showing details, but did find some stuff on the UK version of HC:
link You can catch some of Adolf's whacky engineering silliness on You Tube:
Video 1 link Video 2 link Video 3 link Video 4 link Video 5 link Silly Nazi's! |
| Jakar Nilson | 24 Mar 2008 3:58 p.m. PST |
I remember that show! The dome was also too exposed to hold itself up, right? |
| jonspaintingservice | 24 Mar 2008 4:13 p.m. PST |
Not sure i would trust in the history channel. Some stuff is good, others are exagerated or sensasionalised. Ground too soft sounds a bit lame. Look at venice you can build almost anything anywhere as long as you get the foundations right. |
| Oddball | 24 Mar 2008 5:08 p.m. PST |
"If the plans had been realized," says spokesman Sascha Keil, "Berlin's historical center would have forever been destroyed." I thought the US 8th Air Force and the RAF took care of that during the war? And let's not forget the Soviets contribution to the "urban renewal" of Berlin in April, '45. Not sure how much of "Berlin's historical center" was left anyway, plans or no plans for "Germania". |
| Stealth1000 | 25 Mar 2008 3:08 a.m. PST |
I thought that was what GW planned for Nottingham.
:-) Tony |
| Grinning Norm | 25 Mar 2008 3:51 a.m. PST |
GW's plans would have had more skullz and purity seals. There, a difference which proves GW isn't Nazi Germany. |
Frederick  | 25 Mar 2008 5:34 a.m. PST |
There is an interesting description of a putative "post-victory" Berlin in Harry Turtledove's "In the Midst of Mine Enemies", about a Jewish family living in Berlin – the father works as a bureaucrat for the Nazi Foreign Ministry, squeezing taxes out of the American puppet government |
| Chris PzTp | 25 Mar 2008 5:52 a.m. PST |
I think that the heading "How Hitler Would Have Rebuilt Berlin" may be misleading. If I understand correctly, these plans weren't for rebuilding Berlin after it was destroyed in the war, but fanciful plans for how berlin would have been altered by the Nazi's after they had won the war (ie, they would have done the 'destruction' themselves). |
| Chris PzTp | 25 Mar 2008 6:00 a.m. PST |
This site has some pictures of a test section for a proposed stadium that would have been massive. link There are also many other interesting then & now pictures on this site. |
