Message text written by Alison Croggon
>My understanding is that the only thing that saved Paris was that Speer's
Berlin was going to outshine it - Hitler actually had planned to raze it
to the ground, BECAUSE of its architecture, as nothing could outshine the
Reich. But that's by the by.
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Well, Speer says otherwise. It was not because of its architecture that
Hitler ordered the city to be razed - his policy extended to all occupied
areas under threat of recapture, and was designed ostensibly to hinder
allied productivity in these areas. It WAS, however, the architecture that
saved the city, and this in direct contravention of Hitler's dictate.
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