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Odeonsplatz – Ludwigstraße – Galeriestraße 4 –
Hofgarten
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Memorial
to the
resistance to
National
Socialism
Detour: The Regime’s Public Show
of Power in the “Führer City”
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After 1933 Munich served as a showcase for the
regime’s public demonstrations of power and propaganda.
The Nazis wanted to compensate Munich for
the loss of influence it had suffered when the regime’s
centre of power shifted to Berlin by giving the city the
“cultural leadership”. Gigantic urban redevelopment
projects were planned. While modern artists were
defamed as “degenerate”, the new rulers celebrated
their philistine and backward-looking tastes in the
“Capital of German Art”.
12 Feldherrnhalle
Odeonsplatz
13 Day of German Art
Odeonsplatz
14 “Degenerate Art” exhibition 1937
Galeriestraße 4
15 Haus der Deutschen Kunst
Prinzregentenstraße 1
16 Widening of Von-der-Tann-Straße
to lead up to the Haus der
Deutschen Kunst
Von-der-Tann-Straße
From 1933 Munich celebrated its role
as the birthplace of the NSDAP with
bombastic pageants. Especially on 9
November, which had been declared
a public holiday to mark the putsch
attempt in November 1923, the city
centre became the stage for a lurid
spectacle. Commemoration ceremonies
were held on the evening of 8 Novem-
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