Ocean spray and rainbow

Posted on January 12th, 2020

2017-04-06 Ocean Spray

Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds

Posted on January 4th, 2020

Home of a permanent exhibit on the history of the Nazi movement in Germany. Originally it was to be the “Congress Hall” for the Nazi rally grounds, but it was never completed:

Unfinished Congress Hall, now home to the Documentation Center, with permanent exhibits on the rise of Nazism

It was consciously modeled on the Roman Colosseum. Here is a view of the unfinished interior:

The backside.

Like a number of Nazi constructions, it was done very hastily. Note the random mixture of bricks:

Hasty brick construction.

The Nazis took over Germany in what seems like an inexplicably short time. The party started around 1920; in 1933 Hitler was named Chancellor by von Hindenberg, and in within a few years Germany was a totalitarian state bent on world conquest.