Talk:Nazi architecture

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Very well written, thorough article. Has anyone thought of a FA nomination, or might it be too long? --Impaciente 08:22, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

It could be shorter. The section on slave labour is too speculative and not close enough to the topic for an encyclopedia article. --213.39.207.184 16:03, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Interesting article. Alexander 007 02:20, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Okay, how long have you been reading at the Nazi Architecture webpage for awhile now ?

Who do we report 69.192.205.46 too for deleting the full Nazi Architecture webpage ??

Report vandalism here: WP:VIP. Alexander 007 18:15, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Romanesque

I removed Category:Nazi architecture from Category:Romanesque architecture and User:Endurance told me:

Nazi architecture is quite Romanesque please to your research before blindly deleting references. Endurance 01:40, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

I read quickly the article and see no mention and no relation to Romanesque. It could be argued that it is a variant of Neoclassicism, but if it is viewed as a branch of Romanesque, please state that in the article with an explanation. --Error 00:29, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Since when have the Greeks been the "alleged ancestors of the Germans"?

The Nazi's attempted to create a link between the Germans and the Greeks; however, this was a falsehood. Please read the Nazi architecture webpage for more information.

[edit] Copyright problems of associated articles

This is just a quick note to inform any interested parties that many articles related to this one were found to be copyright violations and have been blanked. Specifically, Das Schwarze Korps, House of German Art, Neville Henderson, Zeppelin field, Lustgarten and Thingplatz had to be blanked, and Ordensburg faced significant reversion. It is unfortunate that so much material was copyrighted, and I hope free content can be created to replace the lost articles. LizardWizard 05:16, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

Update: User:WritersCramp has rewritten Das Schwarze Korps. Thanks! LizardWizard 19:10, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category Architecture

As this article is placed in both Category:Architectural styles and Category:Architectural history there is no need to put it into the uber Category:Architecture, which we are trying to cleanup. -- Dogears 00:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Please list the problem architecture and provide a citation to it's removal. Cordially SirIsaacBrock 21:26, 14 March 2006 (UTC)


Much of this entry is directly quoted from the Scobie text rather than paraphrased or cited in quotations. It should be removed.

[edit] Nazi Construction

This bit needs serious cleaning up. A number of the links link to the same building, and a number of the buildings were built long before the Nazi era.

Please list the problem architecture and provide a citation to it's removal. Cordially SirIsaacBrock 21:26, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Accuracy of List of Builders

I wouldn't exactly call Mies van der Rohe one of "Hitler's builders":

Nazi political pressure forced Mies to close the school, a victim of its previous association with socialism, communism, and other progressive ideologies. He built very little in that decade (his major built commission was Philip Johnson's New York apartment), his style rejected by the Nazis as not "German" in character. He left his homeland reluctantly in 1937 as he saw his opportunity for future building commissions vanish, accepting a residential commission in Wyoming and then an offer to head an architectural school in Chicago. (from Mies van der Rohe)

I have removed him from the list. Perhaps someone should check the other names. Selfinformation 22:59, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fritz Hoger

Why is Fritz Höger in the list? He supported the Nazis and he practised architecture in Nazi Germany, but that does not in any meaningful sense make him a "Nazi architect". Has the author got a source for this? Höger's style was expressionist, not neo-classicist or völkisch. Höger failed to gain an appointment as a state architect under the Nazis. --213.39.207.184 16:03, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

"The Word in Stone" - pg. 60, 113 & 152 Porky Pig 17:15, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heinrich Tessenow

I removed Tessenow from the list of Hitler's builders because he never built anything for the NSDAP. "Tessenow [...] did not participate in the construction the the great national-socialists buildings, even though Speer tried several times to obtain his collaboration" in REICHEL, Peter, La fascination du nazisme, Paris, Odile Jacob, 1993, p. 316. My bad translation from french, but the book exists in English. Icitonpere (talk) 19:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Tessnow was an associate and assisted Speer. Although Tessenow repudiated National Socialism, and one source identifies him as Jewish, unlike a score of his colleagues he remained in Germany through the course of World War II, protected by his former student. Speer intervened with the Minister of Education on Tessenow's behalf to preserve his academic position. Tessenow verified this on his deathbed in 1950. Chessy999 (talk) 21:00, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
The fact Tessenow could keep his academic position does not mean in any way that he built anything for the nazi party. Leon Krier, in Albert Speer Architecture, a book for which he did extensive interviews with Speer himself, state Tessenow did not build for the nazi regime. Barbara Miller Lane, in Architecture and Politics in Germany, says the same thing. Peter Reichel, cited above, says it too. Help me, if you are that knowledgeable: what document cites an evidence of Tessenow architectural activities during the Third Reich, that these scholars have not read? Icitonpere (talk) 22:03, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
He assisted Speer, which in reality kept him alive. Chessy999 (talk) 23:04, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Architects never work alone, except on very small scale project. If not a single architectural project can be put under his name, he should not be in that list. If Tessenow had wanted to build for the nazis, he could have done it; but he did not want, and he did not, period. To know if he draw or not, if he counseled or not Speer does not really matter; he simply did not build. So i will remove him again. And if you stubbornly put him back there, bring some DOCUMENTED evidence, please. This would help your credibility. Icitonpere (talk) 23:21, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Peter Behrens

Peter Behrens "achieved success under the Third Reich" in REICHEL, Peter, La fascination du nazisme, Paris, Odile Jacob, 1993, p. 317. Icitonpere (talk) 19:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Behrens became associated with Hitler's urbanistic dreams for Berlin with the commission for the new head quarters of the AEG on Albert Speer's famous planned north-south axis. Speer reported that his selection of Behrens for this commission was rejected by the powerful Alfred Rosenberg, but that his decision was supported by Hitler who admired Behrens's St. Petersburg Embassy. Behrens and the academy helped his cause by reporting to the Ministry that Behrens had early joined the then illegal Nazi party in Austria on May Day of 1934. Chessy999 (talk) 20:58, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Behrens actually did built a model for the Berlin Plan coordinated by Speer, the AEG Building, which was to be on the Great Avenue, in front of the Hermann-Göring building. Is that not enough evidence of architectural activity? (model illustrated in Lars Olof Larsson, Albert Speer - Le plan de berlin, Bruxelles, Archives d'architecture moderne, p. 98, 100.)Icitonpere (talk) 22:11, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Yes Chessy999 (talk) 23:03, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Images?

This article is definitely in need of some illustrations... I'm not an expert, but I think an article on architecture should at least provide some examples. Selfinformation 12:58, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Check the articles history, there use to be many old pics, but the administrators deleted them. Porky Pig 17:48, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contents

Why does the "contents" frame appear in the middle of the article? Selfinformation 13:07, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

to the left side for me SirIsaacBrock 22:43, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
I mean not at the beginning, vertically... Selfinformation 01:18, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] One Picture?!?!

For the love of god this is a very long and detailed article but there is only one relativly small picture of the top of a piller to illustrate the point!? Come on whoever spent so much time writing the article can most certainly find images of it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.246.51.216 (talk • contribs) .

Given that Wikipedia is a collaborative effort, it might be better to put some work into the article yourself rather than criticizing others who have already put a lot of effort into it. Your time is most certianly better spent helping to improve the article rather than complaining about the work of other people. So go ahead and contribute photos to the article. Just make sure their use on Wikipedia does not violate Wikipedia:Copyrights. --Skeezix1000 12:42, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images and copyright issues

I see that there is a call going out here for images. I have some, but here is the issue. One of my books, A Nation Builds: Contemporary German Architecture was published in 1940 by the German Library of Information, NY NY and the other, Architektur Und Bauplastik der Gergenwart by Werner Rittich was published by [as far as I can tell] Rembrandt-Verlag G.M.B.H., Berlin in 1938. I have tried to track down and/or figure out the copyright issues here and am sort of ending up at some sort of Fair Use listing - but i need help on this. So, feel free to pich in, drop me a line or something. Carptrash 18:16, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unencyclopedic or something, I guess

This page reads much more like an essay (which, I presume, it started out as) than as a Wikipedia article. I think the paragraphs and need to be broken up and the wording made less longwinded. Vorratt 22:26, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ruin value

There's a separate article titled "Ruin Value" not linked to anywhere here; I concur with the comment on its talk page:

"I believe it does warrant its own page, however, but certainly the lion's share of the information should be moved here with a "Main article:" tag in its place."

Coughinink 11:22, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

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