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Volkshalle

20th century in BerlinAdolf HitlerAlbert SpeerBuildings and structures in BerlinNazi architecture
Proposed monuments and memorialsUnbuilt buildings and structures in Germany
Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1986 029 02,
Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1986 029 02, "Germania", Modell "Große Halle"

The Volkshalle ("People's Hall"), also called Große Halle ("Great Hall") or Ruhmeshalle ("Hall of Glory"), was a proposal for a monumental, domed building to be built in a reconstituted Berlin (renamed as Germania) in Nazi Germany. The project was conceived by Adolf Hitler and designed by his architect Albert Speer. No part of the building was ever constructed. The word Volk had a particular resonance in Nazi thinking. The term völkisch movement, which can be translated to English as "the people's movement" or "the folkish movement", derives from Volk but also implies a particularly racial undertone. Before the First World War, völkisch thought had developed an attitude to the arts as the German Volk; that is, from an organically linked Aryan or Nordic community (Volksgemeinschaft), racially unpolluted and with its roots in the German soil of the Heimat (homeland).

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Volkshalle
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Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1986 029 02,
Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1986 029 02, "Germania", Modell "Große Halle"
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