The reconstruction of the German capital can be divided into four different projects:—1. The triumphal road cutting straight through Berlin.
2. The "University City," which is being built near the present Stadium, erected for the Olympic Games of 1936, and for the sake of which the owners of scores of new villas are being ordered to move. When completed the Berlin University, known formerly as the "Friedrich Wilhelm Universitaet," after the name of its founder, will be renamed the "Adolf Hitler University.
A colossal complex of buildings near the Tempelhof airfield, which is being turned into the biggest central field in the world. The field measure 2.5 kilometres by 1.7 kilometres. The administration offices of almost all German civilian aviation companies will be quartered in vast circular buildings topped by a central building, the airfield station, where air passengers will alight on a gigantic covered terrace and enjoy their meals on top of the building, where restaurants will seat 2,000 guests and a congress hall seat an audience of 800.
4. In the centre of Berlin, Ministries are being expanded. One of the side streets of the Wilhelmstrasse, the Vosstrasse, is a mass of debris and dust to-day, but by the autumn, Nazis declare, the new buildings erected to expand the Fuehrers Chancellery will shine in their severe splendour along this thoroughfare, which only a short while ago sported the baroque splendour of the past century
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