Welcome to Albert Speer's Berlin


In 1937, Speer was appointed “Generalbauinspektor for
the Reich's Capital” by Adolf Hitler. In this capacity he
had the responsibility to rebuild the city of Berlin into a
modern metropolis of power for the German Reich –
Germania. For this series Speer’s work has been recreated
in detail, from his first commission for the Nazi Party in
1932, to the “Hall of the Nation” that Hitler wished him to
complete before 1950. Thus it is now possible to draw a
direct comparison between the historic architecture of
the old Berlin, and the buildings that were constructed
and planned by the Nazi’s. Some of these buildings, that
were originally erected under Albert Speer, still dominate
the cityscape of modern Berlin, although their origin is
largely unknown today.