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Translation of Erinnerungen.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- pt 1. 1. Origins and youth : Youth ; Life at home ; Schooling ; Inflation ; Assistant to Tessenow ; Marriage -- 2. Profession and vocation : Offer from Afghanistan ; Architect without commissions ; Boating tours ; The election of September 14, 1930 ; National socialism and the technical institute ; First Hitler rally ; Goebbels in the Sportpalast ; Joining the party -- 3. Junction : First party assignment in Berlin ; Back in Mannheim ; Hitler's Berlin demonstration ; Renovating the party headquarters and the Propaganda Ministry ; Décor for the Party Rally, May 1933 ; My client Hitler ; At home with Hitler -- 4. My catalyst : Hitler's guest ; My client Goering ; Traveling with Hitler ; Hitler's thought ; Hitler's views on art ; The Old Fighters ; At Obersalzberg Mountain walks with Eva Braun ; Cheers and obsessions ; Hitler the architect -- 5. Architectural megalomania : The Roehm putsch ; Papen expelled from his office ; Hindenburg's funeral ; First major assignment ; Theory of ruin value ; Cathedral of light ; Cornerstone layings ; Plans for Nuremberg ; Architecture of a Great Power -- 6. The greatest assignment : Plans for Berlin ; Rivaling Vienna and Paris ; Hitler and his architects ; The German pavilion at the Paris World's Fair ; Neoclassicism in our times ; Abortive travels in France ; Neurath's obstinacy -- 7. Obersalzberg : Bormann and Hitler ; The day at Obersalzberg ; Teatime talk ; Hitler's rage ; Retirement in Linz ; Hitler prediction -- 8. The new Chancellery : The assignment ; Hitler's illness ; Morell ; Events of 1938: cabinet changes, Austria, Munich, November 9 ; A bad omen ; Hacha in the new Chancellery -- 9. A day in the Chancellery : Waiting ; Hess the eccentric ; The leadership's "style" ; The radicals, Bormann and Goebbels ; Jokes for Hitler ; Dull evenings ; Hitler and music -- 10. Our Empire style : "You've all gone completely crazy" ; Laying out the grand avenue ; Megalomania ; Deadlines ; Costs ; Boom in architecture ; Hitler's sketches ; Affairs in the Goebbels family ; Incognita to Italy ; Hitler's fiftieth birthday ; With the Wagner family in Bayreuth ; Frau Goebbels -- 11. The globe : Hitler's power center ; The biggest building in the world ; A Reichstag for one hundred forty million people ; Hitler's palace ; Fear of uprisings ; Empire style ; The globe -- 12. The descent begins : The pact ; Northern lights over Obersalzberg ; "Blood" ; War and peace parties ; Hitler goes to war ; At headquarters ; Armistice ; With Hitler in Paris ; Wartime building program -- 13. Excess : Victory parades under the triumphal arch ; Hess's flight to England ; Hitler and Goering as art collectors ; War against the Soviet Union ; The pencil line along the Urals ; Captured weapons for the grand avenue ; Trondheim and the East ; My last art tour ; Disaster in Russia ; The second man.
