Reich Chancellery
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The Reich Chancellery was the traditional name of the office of the chancellor of Germany in the period of the German Reich from 1878 to 1945. The Chancellery's seat, selected and prepared since 1875,
Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1998 013 20A, Berlin, Reichskanzlei
Bundesarchiv Bild 183 R89708, Berlin, Neue Reichskanzlei
The New Reich Chancellery under construction in 1938
The New Reich Chancellery, pictured here on the junction of Hermann-Göring-Straße (now Ebertstraße) and Voßstraße in 1939
Albert Speer
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Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer was a German architect who served as Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close friend and ally of Adolf Hitler,
Reich Chancellery
…the ruins of the Old Reich Chancellery were not cleared until 1950. In late January 1938, Adolf Hitler officially assigned his favourite architect, Albert Speer, to build the New Reich Chancellery around the corner on Voßstraße, a western branch-off of Wilhelmstraße, requesting that the building be completed…
Speer in 1933
Speer shows Hitler a project at Obersalzberg.
The Cathedral of Light above the Zeppelintribune
Model of the Große Halle (also called Ruhmeshalle or Volkshalle) with the Reichstag building and the Brandenburg Gate