Review of
The Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg:
A Short Guide, by Alexander Schmidt and Markus Urban
ISBN 3930699478
Four out of five stars
Brief history of what was planned for Nuremberg
Nuremberg was
the site of the massive rallies conducted by the Nazi Party in Germany before
the start of World War II. As part of this program, the Germans developed a
massive building program of structures that could house incredible numbers of
participants. While few of those structures were ever completed, the sheer
grandiosity of their construction plans have few rivals throughout history.
This book is a
brief explanation of those plans with descriptions of how large the structures
were to be, how many people they could accommodate and what they were to be made
of. The explanations are constructed from pictures of models, what was
constructed and a textual description of the building.
Governments
from ancient times have built massive structures designed to be both functional
and long-term monuments to their power. The Egyptians succeeded, the Nazis did
not. Books like this and a few relics are all that is left of their grandiose
plans.
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