Volkshalle
Sign in to savethumb|250px|Model of the Große Halle The '''''' (, "People's Hall"), also called ' (, "Great Hall") or ' (, "Hall of Glory"), was a proposal for a monumental, domed building to be built in a reconstituted Berlin (renamed as Germania) in Nazi Germany. The project was conceived by Adolf Hitler and designed by his architect Albert Speer. No part of the building was ever constructed.
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thumb|250px|Model of the Große Halle The '''''' (, "People's Hall"), also called ' (, "Great Hall") or ' (, "Hall of Glory"), was a proposal for a monumental, domed building to be built in a reconstituted Berlin (renamed as Germania) in Nazi Germany. The project was conceived by Adolf Hitler and designed by his architect Albert Speer. No part of the building was ever constructed.
The word Volk had a particular resonance in Nazi thinking. The term völkisch movement, which can be translated to English as "the people's movement" or "the folkish movement", derives from '' but also implies a particularly racial undertone. Before the First World War, völkisch'' thought had developed an attitude to the arts as the German '; that is, from an organically linked Aryan or Nordic community ('), racially unpolluted and with its roots in the German soil of the Heimat (homeland).