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Beijing Olympics and Ghosts from the past

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Not sure if this falls in to conspiracy Theories Forum... but here it goes:

THE son of Hitler’s favourite architect, who was ordered by the Führer to turn Berlin into the greatest city in the world, has designed a key route to the Beijing Olympic site.
Albert Speer Jr, who was born a year after Hitler came to power, was recruited by the Chinese authorities as lead designer on the huge architectural project to redesign the sprawling city ahead of the 2008 Games.
Their choice has stirred ghosts from the past. More than 70 years ago Speer’s father, dubbed the “Devil’s Architect”, was charged with a similar task of rebuilding the Reich capital and turning it into an unrivalled global metropolis. He designed all the big Nazi important buildings including the stadium for the 1936 nazi Olympics.

"...For others, Beijing's radical rebuild smacks of totalitarian-power architecture, akin to the grandiose but unrealized blueprints of Albert Speer, Hitler's favorite architect."

Beijing Reborn:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/32439
 
Thats News to me.

I hope he is a better Architect than his Father. The Nazis ruined Berlin and took German Architecture a step back wards. I Hate Neo Classicism.

For what it's worth Albert Speer got off lightly at Nuremberg, he should have been hung ! both for crimes against Humanity and Architecture !
 
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