Title: How Did Germany Rebuild After World War II? - The Aleppo Project
Headings: How Did Germany Rebuild After World War II?
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How Did Germany Rebuild After World War II?
What was the impact on planning on reconstruction in Germany?
When did thinking about reconstruction start in Germany?
What were the implications of local management?
How did German’s clear the rubble from their cities so effectively?
How was Berlin rebuilt after the war?
How did Germany deal with buildings with histories of terror and violence?

Content: He wanted to see cities modernised with wide streets for automobiles and the construction of skyscrapers. So in many cities you had planners – not just in Berlin but in Hamburg and elsewhere – that were starting to think about these things before the war. When the bombing started they were thinking that it provided them with a way to implement modernisation plans in an easier way. That was not the way it worked out. Cities after the war said they needed planners to help them recover but they didn’t want planners who were in favour of Nazi ideas. They didn’t want planners from other cities telling them to transform their cities. Another issue that makes Germany different from say Japan or the Soviet Union is that they didn’t have a national government in Germany until late 1948/1949 . So you didn’t have a situation where you had a national capital telling cities how to rebuild. That was the case in Japan and the Soviet Union. Often the attitude was that the national government would determine how reconstruction was done.