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99% Invisible

The Nazi Block

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.827.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

One of the Third Reich’s most colossal architectural failures.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

0:04.8

In the Temple Hofschneberg District of Berlin, there's an enormous concrete structure that sits across the street from a supermarket.

0:13.1

It's obscured by trees, surrounded by residential apartments, and gently flecked with German graffiti.

0:20.0

Okay, check one, two, one two.

0:22.1

It is 8.34 a.m.

0:24.7

I am quite possibly the most jet lagged I've ever been in my entire life,

0:29.3

and I'm waiting for my Uber, or as they say, here in Germany, my Uber.

0:35.9

We sent 99PI producer Vivian Lay there to check it out.

0:40.1

Jetlag be damned, I met up with Hana Fisha and Vincent Brookman.

0:44.1

Hannah is the curator and deputy director for the Temple Hofshunaberg museums,

0:48.2

and Vincent is a journalist and tour guide.

0:50.6

They were there to show me around a curious neighborhood landmark.

0:53.8

From afar, it kind of looks like a derelict, brutalist grain silo.

0:58.0

Is it a popular site for people to visit this one?

1:02.0

Yes.

1:02.5

It's the most popular.

1:04.6

And it is the least aesthetically pleasing.

1:08.3

Yeah, that is true.

1:09.8

Yeah.

1:11.8

This structure is a bit hard to describe

1:13.8

because there's literally nothing else like it in the world.

1:17.7

On the surface, it's a very, very big,

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