The Volkshalle (“People's Hall”), also called Große Halle
(“Great Hall”) or Ruhmeshalle (“Hall of Glory”), was a huge
domed monumental building planned by Adolf Hitler and his
architect Albert Speer for Germania. The project was never
accomplished. The word Volk had a particular resonance in Nazi
thinking. The term völkisch movement, which can be translated to
English as "the people's movement" or "the folkish movement",
derives from Volk but also implies an otherworldly and eternal
essence. Before the First World War, völkisch thought had
developed an attitude to the arts as the German Volk; that is,
from an organically linked Aryan or Nordic community
(Volksgemeinschaft), racially unpolluted and with its roots in
the German soil of the Heimat (homeland). Hitler and Hadrian's
Pantheon  Just as Augustus's house on the Palatine was connected
to the temple of Apollo, so Hitler's palace was to have been
connected by a cryptoporticus to the Volkshalle, which filled
the entire north side of the forum. This truly e