Check out my article at Dark Roasted Blend, entitled
Totalitarian Architecture of the Third Reich Fascist and communist governments in the first half of the twentieth century both created monumental architecture, largely to intimidate their people and showcase the regime's strengths. In a totalitarian system such as existed in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, the government attempted to control every aspect of daily life. It used architecture to some degree to achieve this, to firmly...
Published on October 19, 2009 00:02