There is evidence to suggest Hitler started documenting his ideas as early as 1926, with two postcard-sized sketches he made of the “Great Arch,” which he envisaged as a reinterpretation of Germany’s ...

The German architect who later became armaments minister, Albert Speer has long been considered an "artist" among Nazi wartime officials—as he apparently considered himself, holding himself apart from ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Adolf Hitler's utopian plans to rebuild Berlin on a monumental scale were never realised, but the preparations that got under way involved demolitions and the use of slave labour - ...

BERLIN — A Nazi academy designed by Albert Speer and forgotten for decades has become the focus of a monumental treasure hunt in Berlin after explorers claim to have found it buried under a mountain ...

It’s a little after 9PM on a Saturday in Berlin, and Adolf Hitler is splashing around a wooden hot tub with three naked men. The three men are all white-bearded and very fat, with laurel crowns on ...

The last of the Auschwitz survivors to revisit the extermination machine in Poland have left. Now very old men and women, they returned to mark the 75th anniversary of the infamous death camp’s ...

German urban planners have never been as active worldwide as they are today, and Albert Speer is the protagonist in the current success story. The son of the Nazi architect of the same name is ...

Sebastian Koch, who starred in the outstanding Lives of Others (dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; 2006), plays Speer as the young, ambitious architect who forges a close friendship with the ...

Sasson acted as one of the interpreters for Speer, Hitler’s closest lieutenant, at the Nuremberg trials after the war. He was the only member of the Fuhrer’s frontline to plead guilty, yet the only ...

From the planned centrepiece of Hitler’s New Berlin to a 4-km-high (2.5 mile) steel structure that was to rise above Tokyo – Jonathan Glancey looks at architects’ impossible dreams. When Berlin fell ...