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The Reich Chancellery (German: Reichskanzlei) was the traditional name of the office of the Chancellor of Germany (then called Reichskanzler) in the period of the German Reich from 1878 to 1945. The Chancellery's seat, selected and prepared since 1875, was the former city palace of Adolf Friedrich Count von der Schulenburg (1685–1741) and ...
Neurath remains a Reich Minister (without portfolio). February 1938: Blomberg resigns as Reich Minister of War and his office is abolished. General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces, is granted cabinet rank. February 1938: Walther von Brauchitsch succeeds Fritsch as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and is granted ...
The Reich Chancellery and Führerbunker Complex: An Illustrated History of the Seat of the Nazi Regime is a 2006 book by Steven Lehrer, in which Lehrer recounts the history of a group of Berlin buildings, from their construction in the 18th century until their complete destruction during and after World War II.
The Führerbunker was located about 8.5 metres (28 ft) beneath the garden of the old Reich Chancellery, 120 meters (390 ft) north of the new Reich Chancellery building at Voßstraße 6. [8] The Führerbunker was located 2.5 meters lower than the Vorbunker and to the west-southwest of it. [ 8 ]
New Reich Chancellery (Reichskanzlei) Voßstraße, Berlin 1939 1945 Reichszeugmeisterei building Munich: 1937 Riese: Lower Silesia, Poland: 1943–45 Saarländisches Staatstheater: Soldatenhalle: Schwerbelastungskörper: Berlin: 1941/42 Thingstätte or Thingplatz Various 1933-1939 Volkshalle: Berlin: Never built Vorbunker: Berlin 1936 Weingut I
Hitler's 56th birthday in 1945 was a private celebration held in the bunker under the Reich Chancellery in Berlin as the Soviet Red Army battled to take the city; even under those circumstances, Hitler would frequently spend hours in the bunker of the Chancellery looking at the scale model of the proposed rebuilding of Linz, which centered on ...
Hanns Kerrl – Reich Minister of Church Affairs and First Deputy President of the Reichstag until his death in 1941. Dietrich Klagges – Minister President of the Free State of Brunswick between 1933 and 1945. Matthias Kleinheisterkamp – SS-Obergruppenführer; divisional leader of SS divisions Das Reich and Nord.
Haus des Meeres Albert Speer's New Reich Chancellery with Arno Breker's two statues, completed in 1939 Greater Vienna was the second-largest city of the Reich, three times greater than old Vienna. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Three pairs of concrete flak towers were constructed between 1942 and 1944; one of them is known as Haus des Meeres , another one ...