ID required of two men with Hitler...
ID required of two men with Hitler...
Could someone tell me who these two gentlemen are please, either side of old adolf?
Thanks.
http://www.walkerboyz.pwp.blueyonder.co ... nparis.jpg
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dave
Thanks.
http://www.walkerboyz.pwp.blueyonder.co ... nparis.jpg
its a 300k pic incase you are on dialup!
dave
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In "Adolf Hitler" by John Toland, the author identifies the man on the right as Arno Breker, a sculptor that Hitler brought along on his sightseeing tour of Paris on 23 June 1940. Toland wrote that Breker's "heroic-classical works were also admired by Stalin." Albert Speer (on left) and Paul Giesler, both architects, also went along on the tour.
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Shawn
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Shawn
The one on the left is indeed Albert Speer, Hitler took him along to Paris to inspect the architecture for ideas and to make sure that anything designed into the Fuhrer's new Germania would be significantly bigger than anything in Paris.
K.
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Ken Cocker
London
from: http://stevenlehrer.com/paris.htmAfter the German Army had overrun France in June 1940, the victorious Hitler, along with architect Albert Speer, sculptor Arno Breker, architect Hermann Giesler, and others proceeded to Paris,
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By nine in the morning, the sightseeing was finished. “It was the dream of my life to be permitted to see Paris,” Hitler told Speer. “I cannot say how happy I am to have that dream fulfilled today.”
A few hours later, Hitler spoke to Speer in the Führer field headquarters, a small room of a peasant house in Brûly de Pesche. “Draw up a decree in my name ordering full-scale resumption of work on the Berlin buildings...Wasn’t Paris beautiful? But Berlin must be made far more beautiful. In the past I often considered whether we would have to destroy Paris. But when we are finished in Berlin, Paris will only be a shadow. So why should we destroy it?” Hitler spoke with great calm, Speer remembered, as though the monstrous vandalism he contemplated was the most natural thing in the world.
K.
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Ken Cocker
London
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Interesting picture. What do you mean by colleague? Fellow architect or did you actually work with him?aenobarbo wrote: Here is an image of both Arno Breker and my colleague Albert Speer.
K.
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