Yet another Post-Nazi Victory WI:

Allegedly, Adolf Hitler invisioned Welthauptstadt Germania in part as a means of revenge against the voters of Berlin for not voting for him in the elections of 1932 and 1933, by making hundreds of thousands of them in those parts of the city that most hevily voted against him homeless.

However, even if you're too squeamish to think about the other methods, there's more than one way to skin a cat. What if Hitler decided that rather than make those voters homeless, he would make them destitute by moving the capital out of Berlin and over to somewhere that would be more grateful and loyal to his vision and building his World Capitol somewhere else. Assuming the screwdriver that Hitler and Germany carry all before them, and there isn't anything meaningful left to the war after 1942 save the mopping up, this raises two questions:

1: Hypothetically, speaking, where would Hitler choose to make this new capital? Whould he have chosen an existing town or city, or would he have tried to create a new municipality whole cloth?

2: How would the design have changed compared to the OTL model? Much of the design was based on accomodating it into the existing pattern of Berlin's street layout.

Inquiring minds want to know!
 
Hitler once had the thought to build a new capital at the Müritzsee in Mecklenburg, but this was only to put pressure on the Berlin bigwigs. All considered, he wanted Berlin to become Germania, not create a nazi Brasilia.

In fact, Hitler was glad about the bomb war, because this gave him an excuse to build his Germania without having to care about Germans having to leave their place.
 
Well then, let's ask a different question.

Geoolgically speaking, where in Germany according to it's 1930s' borders was there sufficient flat ground close enough to bedrock that the whole project (even the triumphal arch and Volksholle) could be built without needing massive prep work to keep from sinking into the soil?
 
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