Sagebiel’s other major building in Berlin, the former Reich Ministry of Aviation, has also survived intact, and postwar events redefined it as well. But its redefinition took a different course because it stood in East Berlin. Like Tempelhof, this early Third Reich project was linked to the expansion of air travel, but here the emphasis was entirely martial. Although Hermann Göring’s new ministry was responsible for both civil and military air travel, the impetus for the project—begun in 1935 and finished the next year—was clearly the establishment of a powerful air force.
