Plans To Turn Into A Swimming Pool
The fate of the Anhalter Bahnhof was determined by World War II, and yet even if the war had not occurred, major changes would still have taken place. Under Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's grand plan to transform Berlin into the Welthauptstadt (World Capital) Germania, to be realised by Albert Speer, the building would have ceased to be a railway terminus. The new North-South Axis, the linchpin of the plan, would have severed its approach tracks, leaving the terminus stranded on the wrong side of it. All trains arriving in Berlin would instead have run into either of two vast new stations located on the Ringbahn to the north and south of the centre, to be known as Nordbahnhof (North Station) and Südbahnhof (South Station), located at Wedding and Südkreuz respectively, while in Speer's plan the former Anhalter Bahnhof was earmarked to become a public swimming pool. In the end, things took a different course.
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