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Does "Hitler's architect" mean "an architect who only serves Hitler"?

 
 
Reply Sun 11 May, 2014 11:00 pm

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Adolf Hitler was raised by an anti-clerical, skeptic father and a devout Catholic mother. Baptized as an infant, confirmed at the age of fifteen, he ceased to participate in the sacraments in later life.[1] In adulthood, he became disdainful of Christianity, but in power was prepared to delay clashes with the churches out of political considerations.[2] Hitler's architect Albert Speer believed he had "no real attachment" to Catholicism, but that he had never formally left the Church. Unlike his comrade Joseph Goebbels, Hitler was not excommunicated[3] prior to his suicide. The biographer John Toland noted Hitler's anticlericalism, but considered him still in "good standing" with the Church by 1941, while historians such as Ian Kershaw, Joachim Fest and Alan Bullock agree that Hitler was anti-Christian - a view evidenced by sources such as the Goebbels Diaries, the memoirs of Speer, and the transcripts edited by Martin Bormann contained within Hitler's Table Talk.[4] Goebbels wrote in 1941 that Hitler "hates Christianity, because it has crippled all that is noble in humanity."[5] Many historians have come to the conclusion that Hitler's long term aim was the eradication of Christianity in Germany,[6] while others maintain that there is insufficient evidence for such a plan.[7]
 
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Walter Hinteler
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Reply Sun 11 May, 2014 11:51 pm
@oristarA,
Speer was the Nazi party's chief architect ("head of the Chief Office for Construction") and thus, it can be said in short and generalised that he was "Hitler's chief architect".
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Reply Mon 12 May, 2014 01:24 am
@Walter Hinteler,
Thank you.
What would like to answer the second question:

Does "creative force" mean "supernatural force that creates life"?

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Hitler's own myth had to be protected, and this led him, like Napoleon, to speak frequently of Providence, as a necessary if unconscious projection of his sense of destiny which provided him with both justification and absolution. 'The Russians', he remarked on one occasion 'were entitled to attack their priests, but they had no right to assail the idea of a supreme force. It's a fact that we're feeble creatures and that a creative force exists'".
— Excerpt from Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 12 May, 2014 02:09 am
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
Does "creative force" mean "supernatural force that creates life"? Yes.

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Hitler's own myth had to be protected, and this led him, like Napoleon, to speak frequently of Providence, as a necessary if unconscious projection of his sense of destiny which provided him with both justification and absolution. 'The Russians', he remarked on one occasion 'were entitled to attack their priests, but they had no right to assail the idea of a supreme force. It's a fact that we're feeble creatures and that a creative force exists'".
— Excerpt from Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock

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Reply Mon 12 May, 2014 06:40 am
@oristarA,
Not necessarily, we can all create to a certain extent, it can be interpreted as individual or collective creativity, or as an abstract, possibly supernatural force.

Hitler had grand designs for Berlin, he wanted to completely rebuild Berlin and rename it Germania, capital of all Europe. Speer was the architect who designed Germania, other than the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, and the Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremburg these designs didn't get further than the drawing board.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515PzBabKwL.jpg

This book is set in Speer's/Hitler's Germania in an alternative future where Hitler won. It's a cracking thriller, well worth reading.
oristarA
 
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Reply Mon 12 May, 2014 07:03 am
@izzythepush,
Thanks for recommending.

Who would like to answer the second question?
The question:
Does 'Hitler was jobbed into power by backstairs intrigue' mean "Hitler was pushed to the throne by secret plan"?

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In Bullock's opinion, Hitler was a “mountebank ”, an opportunistic adventurer devoid of principles, beliefs or scruples whose actions throughout his career were motivated only by a lust for power. Bullock's views led in the 1950s to a debate with Hugh Trevor-Roper who argued that Hitler did possess beliefs, albeit repulsive ones, and that his actions were motivated by them. Bullock's Guardian obituary commented that "Bullock's famous maxim 'Hitler was jobbed into power by backstairs intrigue' has stood the test of time."[4]
When reviewing "Hitler: A Study in Tyranny" in The Times in 1991, John Campbell wrote "Although written so soon after the end of the war and despite a steady flow of fresh evidence and reinterpretation, it has not been surpassed in nearly 40 years: an astonishing achievement."[5]
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 12 May, 2014 07:43 am
@oristarA,
I would never call it "throne". Hitlergot the job was because the German leaders entered into a series of back-room deals known as the backstairs intrigue.
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Mon 12 May, 2014 09:13 am
@oristarA,
I agree with Walter.
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