The National Socialist State represented itself by means of vast publicbuildings, executed in a stripped neoclassical style, thus linking the ThirdReich directly with Antiquity and a more recent German past (1750-1850). Hitler, who showed much interest in art and especially in architecture,wanted his Reich, which he came to see as a sort of myth, to look monumentaland timeless. The buildings would symbolize the power of the newregime. They were the scene and background of public life and were usedto mobilize the German masses into a solid nation. A new political culture,an ersatz religion, was created, and a cult to go with it. Polities, aesthetics,religion, ... all became one dramatic whole.
