Relics of the Reich
Posted on Tuesday 12th April 2016


WEWELSBURG CASTLE, PADERBORN, NORTH-RHINE
WESTPHALIA


Construction of what was said to be the biggest holiday complex in the world on the Baltic coast, the Prora-Rugen KdF (Strength Through Joy) complex, 1937 (Bundesarchiv, unknown)












Above: The remains of the Zeppelin Field Grandstand from which Hitler addressed the annual Nazi Party Rallies in Nuremberg (Adam Jones)
BÜRGERBRÄUKELLER
AND THE HOFBRÄUHAUS, MUNICH
BAVARIA
















Further Reading
Relics of the Reich
(Hardback - 216 pages)
ISBN: 9781473844247
by Colin Philpott
Only £19.99
Relics of the Reich is the story of what happened to the buildings the Nazis left behind. Hitler’s Reich may have been defeated in 1945 but many buildings, military installations and other sites remained. At the end of the War, some were obliterated by the victorious Allies but others survived.
For almost fifty years, these were left crumbling and ignored with post-war and divided Germany unsure what to do with them, often fearful that they might become shrines for neo-Nazis. Since the early 1990s, Germans have come…
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