house an enormous art museum for the northern part of Germany′s empire, containing "only works of German masters". An Autobahn was to be constructed to Trondheim across the Little and Great Belts of Denmark and further through southwest Sweden and Norway to connect the northern outpost with Germany proper. The naval base itself was planned to contain extensive shipyards, docks and U-boat bases for the expected post-war German navy that was to consist altogether of several hundred submarines and dozens of super-battleships, as well as several aircraft carriers. It would, in Hitler's words, render the British Empire hold on Singapore as "mere child′s play" by comparison as a military stronghold. Atlantic Wall As one of Germany′s most important naval bases in the anticipated near future, the city played an important role in German schemes for a massively enlarged version of the Atlantic Wall. During the Nuremberg Trials, it was admitted that Hitler intended to retain not only Trondheim, but also numerous other maritime cities such as Brest and Cherbourg in France as German exclaves (Festungen, i.e. "strongholds") for the Third Reich, similar to the Soviet military base temporarily established in the Finnish town of Hanko after the Winter War. Nordstern would therefore be one among many military quasi-colonies with almost exclusively German inhabitants. Together with other cities and island chains in both Europe and Africa, it was to form part of a string of German military bases that would span the entire Atlantic coastline from Norway all the way to the Belgian Congo. This was to assist Germany with the re-establishment of a large overseas colonial domain in Central Africa known as Mittelafrika, and was also intended for both offensive and defensive operations against the Western Hemisphere, specifically the United States. See also Welthauptstadt Germania Nazi architecture Atlantic Wall Plan Z Festung Norwegen Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany Reichskommissariat Norwegen Notes References External links Norwegian article about Nordstern. Politics of Nazi Germany Planned cities Nazi architecture Norway in World War II German occupation of Norway 20th century in Trondheim Cancelled cities