Description: Burg Vogelsang was erected between 1934 and 1936 as one of four elite academies where racially pure young German men were to be moulded into leaders for the Third Reich.
The buildings are one of the best-maintained examples of Nazi architecture in Germany and the biggest after the Nuremberg party rally grounds.
The Burg's black stone cladding and crushing symmetry, by Clemens Klotz, a Cologne architect, mirrors that of Albert Speer, Hitler's court architect and friend.
In Hitler's time, the 500 25-to-30 year-olds picked from the cream of Nazi youth would learn "geopolitics", "race policy" and "history policy" here.
Never finished, the castle served its intended purpose for only a few months before being taken over by the Wehrmacht [German army]. It was captured by American forces in 1945, then transferred to the British and, a year later, to the Belgian army which used it as a training area.
From 2006 on, Vogelsang will have a new purpose : the Training Area becomes a National Park.
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