As for what the 'Nazi'
style
comprises, German architects of the 1930s developed a format for
designing government facilities, and their style can be summed up in
a few words: imposing concrete
excess combined with relatively low, long
lines.
Instead of believing in towering skyscrapers as
much
as was possible with the technology of the 1930s and later, Nazi
architects believed that the more physical space occupied along the
streets with efficient and cold precision, the more respect one could
theoretically generate among the common masses.
Although corruption
ran rampant in the interiors of the Nazi offices, the exteriors
presented a stern denial of anything but a modern government. It
was a
style which pervaded American architecture, at least slightly, after
the end of the W.W.II.
This infiltration was, in my humble opinion, only
possible
when one explores the mysterious history of our Nation's importation of
the German intelligentsia after the fall of Germany in the mid
forties.
In my opinion, it was the perhaps best course of action available under
the circumstances at the time. Ignoring the ranks of Nazi -
affiliated or funded researchers would have only given an easy source
of brainpower for those whom dreamed of trying o resurrect the Third
Reich in first few years after the close of open conflict in Europe.
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