BERLIN’S NEW AIR G.H.Q.
LARGEST IN GERMANY.
BERLIN, April 14
The plans for the new German Air Ministry building are published for the first time in the Nazi “Angriff” today. The' building, which it is now revealed was begun in January, is to be completed by April 1, 1936. It will be a vast structure, occupying the whole block of the Wilhelmstrasse between Prince Albrecht Strasse and the shopping, thoroughfare Leipzigerstrasse, with a frontage of more than 270 yards. It will take in the old Prussian War Ministry, which is to be left practically intact, and stretch back to the buildings which formerly housed the Prussian Diet and Upper House. It will be by far the biggest Ministry, and one of the largest single public buildings in Berlin, occupyingi an area of over six acres.
The new building will be constructed of the same white limestone from the Danube which Herr Hitler chose for the huge party buildings in Nuremberg and Munich. It will consist of two main wings, each with a huge courtyard in the middle, and a sort of oblique flanking wing in the Leipzigerstrasse.
There will be a spacious open approach court with two huge pillars bearing the Nazi. eagle emblem in the middle. Colonnades leading into the building from the street to the inner courtyard will be open once a year to the general public. A row of eight buildings will be torn down to make way for the new Air Ministry, a part of which will be occupied by General Goering and his officials on October 1 this year. 'flic fact that the workmen are digging many days has led the Berlin public to speculate on (he possibility that gigantic bomb-proof cellars were being constructed as a refuge for the German Government in case of an air attack, but there is no mention in the “Angriff” of anything but an underground car park which will have room for 100 cars under the Ministry, presumably lor the use of its officials’ It is stated that three shifts of 1,000 workers each will be engaged on the work.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1935, Page 3
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