Resumen de Anti-Semitic policy in Albert Speer's plans for the rebuilding of Berlin
Art historians have consistently discussed National Socialist architecture in terms of the symbolic implications of forms rather than the functional relationship of the building process to broader state policies. Yet understanding this relationship is necessary if we are to analyze the connection between specific architectural projects in Nazi Germany and the destruction of the Jews. Berlin is a case in point: in order to realize Albert Speer's plans for the redesign of the capital, he and his staff formulated an anti-Semitic policy that linked their architectural goals to state measures aimed at the Jewish community.
