Die Neue Reichkanzlei

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This arrived today. Some of you may have seen them around before; they are comparatively hard to find.

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Printed in 1939...

...by the Eher Verlag (the Nazi publishing house run by Max Amann, A sergeant in the List Regiment and a pal of Hitler's) for Albert Speer upon the opening of the new Chancellery he built for the Fuehrer.

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Full of great pictures.

It's 11x14", and 120 or so pages.

This is a view from the Voss-Strasse. From here, a global empire was to be ruled:

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More.

The pictorial is full of pictures like this:

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Many architectural details are shown.

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Another:

Here is a detail of the Kurt Schmid-Ehmen designed eagle for the main portal.

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Columns:

Such ostentation! The Franco-Greco-Egyptian Romanesque school of architecture.

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Speer himself...

...later admitted that they "were all a little crazy." A view from the garden-side:

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Voss-Strasse

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Hitler's desk.

I doubt he ever used it, though.

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Closeup of the inset panels

I have forgotten the significance. Speer mentions it in his apologia. The half-drawn sword; the medusa-head, etc. One or two of the subtle references, Speer was uneasy about, I think:

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Yet more.

Interior room. East portal to the Mosaic Hall.

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One of the mosaics.

Arno Breker, maybe.

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Another...

...shot of Hitler's desk.

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Going back a moment,

here is a close up of the door shown a couple posts back: