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| The building is based on a rendering of the facade of Hitler's unbuilt Soldiers' Hall of 1938-41, designed by Wilhelm Kreis. Kiefer modified Kreis's design slightly, changing the flat-topped portals characteristic of National Socialist Neoclassical architecture into rounded Roman arches and thus adding another historical dimension, the ancient. |
Adolf Hitler, sketch for planned Soldier's Hall, 1936
From Winfried Nerdinger and Ekkehard Mai, eds.
"Wilhelm Kreis: Architekt zwischen Kaiserreich und Demokratie, 1873-1955
(Munich and Berlin: Klinkhardt and Biermann, 1994), p. 181.
Wilhelm Kreis, model of planned Soldiers' Hall, Berlin, 1939
From Nerdinger and Mai, 1994, p. 186.
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