{"id":1100,"date":"2015-04-16T08:50:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T08:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2019-08-18T22:09:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T22:09:36","slug":"proposed-berlin-remodling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/04\/16\/proposed-berlin-remodling\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Berlin Remodling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Speer became Hitler&#8217;s preferred architect for Berlin through the Second World War because of his grand scheme for the city. If all of his highly expensive plans had been carried out the city, he hypothesized, would be more splendid than Paris. More splendid than Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>This was an idea highly attractive to Hitler, who wanted the Third Reich to be better than all of Europe. Speer was chosen out of numerous architects because he never told Hitler his ideas were too grand either because of physics or budget constraints.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17990\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/speer-and-hitler-300x210.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17990 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/speer-and-hitler-300x210-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hitler inspecting Speer&#8217;s design for Berlin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Almost none of Speer&#8217;s building designs were actually created, but I found some pictures that depict just how large a scale Speer imagined for Berlin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17994\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17994\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/berlin-plans-300x253.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17994 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/berlin-plans-300x253-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speer&#8217;s plans for reorganizing and building Berlin on a grand scale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Speer became Hitler&#8217;s preferred architect for Berlin through the Second World War because of his grand scheme for the city. If all of his highly expensive plans had been carried out the city, he hypothesized, would be more splendid than Paris. More splendid than Vienna. This was an idea highly attractive to Hitler, who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17997,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/17997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}