The Nazi war room in Berlin was modelled after the US war room in "Doctor Strangelove".
The origin of the Third Reich Eagle is a heraldic symbol of the Eagle as an image of imperial power, and is derived from the "Aquila" or Eagle standard of the Roman Legions. It was a great disgrace to lose this in battle and great efforts were made to recover captured standards. The use of the Eagle as the key symbol of the German Reich was far older than the Third Reich. On Christmas Day 800, Pope Leo III crowned a Germanic Frankish king as the new Emperor of the West, this new Emperor, Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, is meant to have taken the imperial eagle as his symbol. His Empire became known as the Holy Roman Empire and later under his descendants became essentially based in Germany. The Holy Roman Empire was the German Empire, essentially the First Reich.
Frederick Barbarossa was the first German Emperor to paint an imperial eagle on his shield. The Eagle has been the symbol of Germany since then. The Eagle is the second most used royal or imperial symbol after the Lion.
Frederick Barbarossa was the first German Emperor to paint an imperial eagle on his shield. The Eagle has been the symbol of Germany since then. The Eagle is the second most used royal or imperial symbol after the Lion.
The song used over the end titles, 'Tomorrow Belongs To Me', was written by John Kander and Fred Ebb for the 1966 Broadway musical version of Cabaret. In the movie Cabaret (1972), it was 'sung' by an actor dressed as a member of the Hitler Youth (Oliver Collignon on-screen, but voice-dubbed by Mark Lambert). Because of this, many neo-Nazi groups, especially musicians and bands, mistake it for an original German National Socialist song. In fact, both Kander and Ebb (who died in 2004) are Jewish.
The Reichstag lower part is modeled after a Roman Coliseum, the dome interior after the Pantheon in Rome.