2021-12-09 08:39:22
The Cathedral Of Light
Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect, designed many buildings but this, he wrote below, was his “most beautiful architectural concept”.
“I had occasionally seen our new anti-aircrafit searchlights blazing miles into the sky l asked Hitler to let me have a hundred and thirty of these” recounted Speer, “Goering made a fuss at first, since these hundred and thirty searchlights represented the greater part of the strategic reserve, but Hitler won him over.”
‘If we use them in such large numbers for a thing like this, other countries will think we’re swimming in searchlights,’ said Hitler.
”The actual effect far surpassed anything I had imagined,” continued Speer, “the hundred and thirty sharply defined beams, placed around the field at intervals of forty feet, were visible to a height of twenty to twenty-five thousand feet, after which they merged into a general glow. The feeling was of a vast room, with the beams serving as mighty pillars of infinitely high outer walls.”
“Now and then a cloud moved through this wreath of lights, bringing an element of surrealistic surprise to the mirage,” described Speer, “I imagine that this ‘cathedral of light’ was the first luminescent architecture of this type, and for me it remains not only my most beautiful architectural concept but, after its fashion, the only one which has survived the passage of time. ”
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