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Jonathan Meades: Designs for the Third Reich, 4 February 2016
Speer: Hitler’s Architect
by Martin Kitchen.
Yale, 442 pp., £20, October 2015,978 0 300 19044 1 Show More
by Martin Kitchen.
Yale, 442 pp., £20, October 2015,
“... of his career had been devoted to blinging the state rooms of Norddeutscher Lloyd liners. Yet, as Despina Stratigakos observes in Hitler at Home, Hitler considered him ‘the greatest architect to grace German soil since Karl Friedrich Schinkel’. Most members of the German architectural trade had, during the Weimar Republic, turned to international ... ”