The official AHF Third Reich culture quiz thread

[grassi]

Ohm Krüger?

Best regards

grassi

[Waleed Y. Majeed]

Correct grassi!
And a good link to a lot of actors and much more from the period...
http://www.geschichteinchronologie.ch/e ... -ENGL.html

All yours?


waleed

[grassi]

Thank you very much! The link is interesting.

Next question - an easy one:
Name the building, please!


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grassi

[Adam Carr]

It's the inside of the unfinished Kongresshalle at Nuremberg.

[grassi]

Yes, perfect answer! Over to you!

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grassi

[Adam Carr]

The Congress Hall is, along with the terminal building at Tempelhof, about the only major piece of architecture from the Nazi years which isn't hideously ugly, and it's possible to regret that it was never finished. It has an excellent documentation centre on the Nuremberg rallies and the corruption of German youth by the Nazis. Since I was there in 2007 plans have been announced to redevelop it as a concert centre.

OK, next question: A great German composer once lived behind this gate, and later an important event in Third Reich history took place here. Curiously, however, it's not in Germany.

[Adam Carr]

A clue, vielleicht?

[london dave]

Is the place in Vienna?

[Max]

A new clue, perhaps?

[Adam Carr]

No it's not in Vienna. My clue is the eagles on top of the gate are not German eagles, but Napoleonic eagles.

[Adam Carr]

Is anyone following this thread any more?

[Polar bear]

hello, Adam

the answer is yes, but without further clues, it´s somewhat difficult.

greetings, the pb

[Adam Carr]

OK, I will claim my prize on this one.

The photo shows the entrance to the German Embassy in the Rue de Lille in Paris. The building is the former home of the Beauharnais family, the family of the Empress Josephine, which is why there are Napoleonic eagles over the gate. It was acquired for the new Prussian Embassy in 1818. Wagner lived here in 1861 while Tannhauser was being produced in Paris. The Third Reich connection is of course that it was through this gate that Herschel Grynszpan came to assassinate a German diplomat in November 1938, triggering the Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany.

I'm happy for someone else to ask a question if they care to.

[Marcus]

Anyone willing to step up with a new question?

/Marcus

[Adam Carr]

I'm waiting for my prize for the last question.