Die Bauten Adolf Hitlers

A Nazi Third Reich propaganda film that weaponizes architecture to advance claims of racial achievement and purported racial superiority. Hitler asserted that between 1934 and 1940 the Nazi regime produced architectural uniqueness, and the film was produced to lend credence to that assertion. The opening montage surveys earlier Gothic and Baroque structures in Germany as evidence of 'architectural superiority' claimed to be exclusively invented by the German race; it then targets the recent Bauhaus movement, accompanied by a racially tinged Jazz score, as an example of 'architectural decay.' The film proceeds to showcase buildings constructed by the Nazi regime and an architectural revival designed to endure for a thousand years. It also dwells on massive, intricate monuments erected across the country.