Führer city

[1] The status was based on Hitler's vision of undertaking gigantic urban transformation projects in these cities, and executed by German architects including Albert Speer, Paul Ludwig Troost, German Bestelmeyer, Konstanty Gutschow, Hermann Giesler, Leonhard Gall and Paul Otto August Baumgarten.

More modest reconstruction projects were to take place in thirty-five other cities, although some sources assert this number was as high as fifty.

[1] These plans were however not realised for the greater part because of the onset of the Second World War, although construction continued to take place even in wartime circumstances at Hitler's insistence.

[2] After the Battle for France in 1940, Hitler ordered that the architectural reshaping of these cities was to be completed by 1950, and should represent the magnitude of the German victories in Western Europe.

[3] At the influence of the Gauleiters, Hitler also greatly increased the number of cities that were slated for reconstruction by twenty-six additional ones not much later.

A model of the European Culture Center Adolf Hitler intended to be at the heart of a revitalized Linz ; the facade of the Führermuseum can be seen at the center of the image, near the top, facing the camera.
A model of the planned Führermuseum , designed by Roderich Fick based on Hitler's sketches
A model of Hitler's plan for Berlin formulated under the direction of Albert Speer , looking north toward the Volkshalle at the top of the frame