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Munich was associated with National Socialism more than any other city [in Germany]. This is where the movement began, where the party, the SA and SS were founded. With its beer cellars, Munich provided a particularly fertile breeding ground for the ideas of the NSDAP.
Accordingly, it is hardly surprising that Hitler too was closely associated with "his Munich" and kept an apartment in Bavaria's state capital.
When the regime's center of gravity increasingly shifted in the direction of Berlin after Hitler came to power, he underscored the significance of Munich by declaring it the "capital of the movement". This was also intended to be expressed in architectural terms with the construction of various representative buildings, such as the "Haus der Kunst", an art gallery. Around the refurbished Königsplatz area accommodating the party headquarters and the Führer's house, a so-called party district came into being, much of which has been preserved to this day. Rare archive material shows Hitler visiting the construction sites in the Königsplatz area.
Hitler still had many more extensive plans. The entire cityscape of Munich was to be changed to a marked degree. Parts of the inner city were to have been completely destroyed. The models for the boulevard and the central railway station, both of megalomaniacal proportions, still exist today. SPIEGEL TV managed to find an architect from the planning office who had participated in drawing up the conversion plans.
Even though very little was actually implemented, the symbols of the Nazi dictatorship are still visible in many places in Munich today.
Titre : Exploring Hitler's Munich (2007)
Réalisation : Frank Gensthaler
Production : Spiegel TV

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