Welthauptstadt Germania

Germania was Adolf Hitlers vision for Berlin as the capital of the future great German Empire. Developing Germania was planned by Hitler personally in collaboration with his personal architect, Albert Speer.

Germania was scheduled to be bigger and more flamboyant than any other city in history. Thoughtful down to the smallest detail with infrastructure, buildings and large parade boulevards. The plan was to build a 117 meter high triumphal arch through which the winning german armies should march.

The planning was so far advanced that the granite was commissioned in Sweden and had cast a foundation plinth, to see whether underground cope with stress. French slave laborersbuilt in 1941 a 12,360 ton, 14 meters high (18 meters below ground) and 21 meters wide concrete block. It stands today as one of the only visible remnants of Germania.

The main building would be the 320 meter high volkshalle with room for 180,000 people.

The plans for Germania, the new capital of Europe, died with Hitler in 1945.