The Great Hall’s counterpart at its southern end was the Great Arch, a Roman-style triumphal arch that differed from its model, Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, mainly in being two and a half times as high, with a width and depth greater than its height and a volume forty-nine times that of the Parisian arch. On its walls would be carved the names of the 1.8 million Germans who died in World War I.
