GERMANY: Glorified Berlin

Large building models, elaborate city maps, complicated street plans, fill a few small rooms of Berlin's Reich Chancellery. In these rooms a young architect-engineer and a middle-aged ruler frequently stay up until 4 a. m. discussing changes, poring over designs. The two conferees are 33-year-old Professor Albert Speer and Chancellor Adolf Hitler. They determine in these all-night conferences the details of mystic, dreamy Adolf Hitler's pet building project—the reconstruction of Berlin, the remaking of a not-too-beautiful city into a worthy, magnificent capital of Greater Germany.

Last week, Führer Hitler inaugurated Berlin's...

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