TY - JOUR AB - <p>The National Socialist State represented itself by means of vast public<br>buildings, executed in a stripped neoclassical style, thus linking the Third<br>Reich directly with Antiquity and a more recent German past (1750-<br>1850). Hitler, who showed much interest in art and especially in architecture,<br>wanted his Reich, which he came to see as a sort of myth, to look monumental<br>and timeless. The buildings would symbolize the power of the new<br>regime. They were the scene and background of public life and were used<br>to mobilize the German masses into a solid nation. A new political culture,<br>an ersatz religion, was created, and a cult to go with it. Polities, aesthetics,<br>religion, ... all became one dramatic whole.</p> AU - Jan Nelis DA - 2003/12// DO - 10.21825/kzm.v57i0.17316 IS - 0 VL - 57 PB - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis PY - 2003 TI - Het Derde Rijk en de antieken: Mythevorming en architecturale zelfrepresentatie in nazi-Duitsland T2 - Handelingen - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse maatschappij voor taal- en letterkunde en geschiedenis UR - https://openjournals.ugent.be/kzm/article/id/72166/ ER -