by emad » Sun Jan 22, 2006 1:30 pm
Adolf Hitler intended to recreate the Vatican's St Peter's Square in Berlin to honour his ally Benito Mussolini, newly discovered documents have revealed.<br><br>Albert Speer, the Nazi leader's chief architect, was commissioned to draw up the plans, which have been discovered by historians examining his papers.<br><br>They had been stored in a secret room inside Moscow's Museum of Architecture after being taken to Russia at the end of World War II. There were more than 200 boxes of files belonging to Speer, whose grand designs for the rebuilding of Nazi Berlin were already well known.<br><br>But the plans for a new, Germanic version of St Peter's Square, complete with a giant statue of Mussolini, have astonished historians.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://smh.com.au/news/world/hitler-wanted-a-bit-of-the-vatican-in-berlin/2006/01/22/1137864806875.html">smh.com.au/news/world/hit...06875.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <p></p><i></i>
