The Man in the High Castle Wikia
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Berlin is the capital of the Greater Nazi Reich. After World War II, Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer were able to put their designs of Welthauptstadt Germania to become reality. Berlin is where all orders to Nazi bases and occupied countries are followed without question and is where the high command of the Third Reich is based.

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The Volkshalle ("People's Hall"), also called Große Halle ("Great Hall") or Ruhmeshalle ("Hall of Glory"), is a huge domed monumental building in Berlin, planned and designed by Hitler's architect Albert Speer. Inside the Volkshalle, there is a massive apse, covered with gold mosaics and enclosing a giant silver statue of eaògle beneath which is situated Fuhrer's tribunal. From there, he is able to address more than 150,000 people, seated in three tiers of seats enclosing a giant circular arena.

The Triumpfbogen ("Arch of Triumph"), is huge Triumphal arch that is about three times as large as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The arch was constructed after the Second World war, and was made to honor the Germans who fell during the war.

The Victory Column, was designed by Heinrich Strack, after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War (1964), by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria and its German allies in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) and the Allies in Second World war (1939-1949).

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