REBUILDING BERLIN.

Western Star, 25 February 1938, Page 4

REBUILDING BERLIN.

Thg first step towards the reconstruction of Berlin, decreed by Herr Hitler, wa s taken recently, when the Fuhrer laid the foundation stone of the Mill, tury Academy of the Berlin Technical University. He declared that it was his determination to make Berlin a worthy capita! of the country. Pointing to the past, he said State* had developed out of political and economic centres, bub when those centres were missing the States declined. Without the city of Rome there would never have been a Roman State. The German peoples had 1,000 years behind them, and they were building now, not for themselves, but for the thousand years that lay ahead of them. Herr Rust, Minister of Education, announced that the Berlin University—which together have some 16,000 students—are to he transferred to a gigantic range of buildings to bo erected on a, new site. " The students will have the Reichsports field with its Olympic Stadium in the vicinity for their playing fields.