Architecture in the New Reich

Abstract Paul Troost was Hitler’s favored architect in the early years of the National Socialist regime, but died in January 1934, barely a year after the National Socialist Party had gained power. His widow, Gerdy Troost, who was also an architect, maintained close connections with Hitler as an architectural advisor, and published a semi-official survey of National Socialist architecture, from which the text that follows is extracted. The focus of this text is the community’s attachment to the German Heimat, the homeland, and the architecture that, according to Troost, is appropriate to it.