Letter: A century after Nazis, another ballroom rises

In Berlin in 1936, architect Leonhard Gall built a grand reception hall behind Adolf Hitler’s Reich Chancellery. It was marble, with light above and a bunker below. It was a place for ceremony, raised on concrete meant for survival. The floor for dancing was the roof of the bunker and its slab was a meter and a half thick, because even power needs somewhere to hide.

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