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Hitler on the purpose of architectural works »So I am not doing this out of a desire to be a great man, but out of the coolest consideration that you can only give a nation self-confidence through such enormous works; among other things, of course, because this should not be the exclusive attempt to increase this self-confidence, but simply one of the means to gradually bring the nation to the conviction in many areas that it is not a second-class asset, but that it is on a par with every other nation in the world, including America. For this reason, I am having this large bridge built in Hamburg, for example. People might say to me: Why don't you build a tunnel? - I don't think it's that practical. But even if I did consider it to be practical, I would still build the largest bridge in the world in Hamburg now to make Germans who come from abroad or go abroad, or who have the opportunity to compare other countries with Germany, aware of this: So what about America with its bridges? We can do exactly the same thing. - That's why I'm having skyscrapers built there with the same aura as the largest American ones. That's why I'm upgrading Berlin into a massive capital. That is why I am creating these gigantic facilities in Nuremberg, why I am doing the same in Munich, why I am building these huge highways in the German Reich, not just out of pure traffic considerations, but also out of the conviction that it is necessary to give the German people their broken self-confidence, which even previously was not so great, back and which a nation of 80 million people can claim and needs.« ~ Adolf Hitler, 10th February 1939, in: Bundesarchiv, Berlin-Lichterfelde; BArch NS 11/28, p. 12-13 (sheet 97-98).