My mum's dad was from the Netherlands. When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands he was taken as slave labor. Since he was a master builder by trade he was put on a special project and I am pretty sure that Germania was this special project.
Thank you for your comment and thank you for sharing such a personal and powerful story of your family. WWII affected many people and their families in ways that are hard for us to imagine.
Honestly even if Germany won the Second World War, I really think that the development of this project will eventually be scaled down and look far different even if implemented.
Correct, the Nazis actually did build very heavy concrete structures to test the solidity and carrying capacity of the sandy Berlin ground. They found that neither the Arc nor the big Hall could be built because they were way too heavy and would sink.
I don’t think so, in fact I think Hitler would double down if he won against Britain and the USSR. His ego would’ve reached unthinkable levels as it was already immense after the defeat of France. He would not allow a downscaling of his and Speer's pet project, in fact I think it would be much more likely that he would scale it up instead. He wouldn’t care how many resources it would take
@@bbbbavkfof course they could be built, we’ve built much bigger and heavier buildings than that, it would’ve needed severe reinforcements but it would’ve been possible
@user-wj6dt5bq3w Yeah but a peace solidifies their conquests, and not just have them be temporary in war. Considering they won far more this would in every way be a win over the British. You know wars used to be like this for centuries, government entities would not usually destroy another in war even if you don’t believe that, but they would fight, then have a peace treaty based on the results, and then both would continue existing.
Thank you for your comment! The comparison with "The Man in the High Castle" is very interesting, as both works deal with an alternate history where the Nazis took over the world. Our video tries to give a glimpse of what Germania might have been like if it had been completed. We hope it has given you a new perspective on this part of history.
I think it’s behind the scenes content for “man in the highcastle” which shows a version of history if Germany won WW2. I remember seeing clips of it elsewhere about how they made the CGI
They just would have had to have dug foundations down to the bedrock. They could do it cheaply, In typical nazi fashion that would have brought in 200,000 slave laborers and when the project was completed the hundred thousand survivors would have been killed. Remember they were actual Nazis.
No wonder Hitler was rejected from art school, his art was terrible. Germania was completely unoriginal, and just a scaled up immitation of Ancient Greece or Rome but without any soul. The fact that Germany had to import marble for Hitler's vanity project rather than do anything original is extra pathetic. I think of that Shrek quote on Lord Farquaad's castle "you think maybe he's compensating for something?"
We were on the wrong side in WW2, and nobody will ever change my mind on this, do i agree with the holocaust and the slave labour ? No of course not, but the fact remains that we sided with a country that did all of those things and on a grater scale, i think it was in Britains interests to have a non aggression pact with Germany, we didn't owe Poland a damn thing, and anyway the Soviet union was just as guilty as Germany for the invasion of poland..
First, your German pronunciation is horrible! Second, Berlin is built on a swamp so it could never have supported the weight of the Volkshalle or the triumphant arch.
As bad as Hitler and the Nazis were they knew how to dress and they knew how to design buildings. I believe Germania (More specifically the Volkshalle) looked pretty damn cool. Only in Hitler's dreams would this ever actually be built, way too big and way too expensive, even if they won WW2. Also, Berlin is built on a marsh, the Volkshalle would sink extremely heavily.
Hitler's ideas of city design were straight out of "Metropolis". Giant monolithic buildings that just shrunk its human inhabitants down to the level of ants. Crushing concrete monstrosities that just pandered to his boundless megalomania.
