When World War II broke out, Hitler was building a massive congress hall to accommodate his top 50,000 Nazis for annual gatherings. The unfinished and empty husk of this building still stands empty, as Germans can’t find an appropriate use for it. The brutal, no-questions-asked, Neoclassical design — like the architecture of any dictator — effectively drives individualism down and makes you feel insignificant…unless you join what they promised would be the winning team.
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Guten Tag,
As the “German soldier” on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In said,
“very interesting”.
The building looks intimidating so no wonder it has sat empty all these years.
You may find this interesting. In 1987 my Belgian friend and I were admiring the Rembrandt’s in the Rijksmuseum when a circle of people were gathered in front of “The Nightwatch”. We walked up to them and very stern guards with bulges under their jackets looked us over. We motioned that we were harmless art lovers. On our tiptoes we could see the museum director giving the VIP treatment to Erich Honacker, the East German chancellor. He was on his farewell tour before liver cancer took him. Outside a fleet of shiny jet black limos were waiting for him. We were so glad we witness a little bit of history.
Thanks for travellin’,
Vedersehen,
Jeff
Rick, listen to what you are saying. Sounds kind of familiar to me as in “You didn’t build that, somebody else made that happen”