The construction lasted two years, resulting in a 427-meter-long impressive building along Voßstraße in the government district.

The building complex was designed in the distinctive style of National Socialist architecture. At its heart lay the lavish “Diplomats’ Route,” a grand 300-meter corridor stretching from the Court of Honor, through a vestibule, several opulent halls, and the Marble Gallery, before culminating in Hitler’s private study.

However, the war left its mark on Hitler’s grandiose residence.

Allied air raids and Red Army artillery damaged the New Reich Chancellery. While it could have been repaired, the Soviet occupiers refused to preserve a such a powerful symbol of Hitler and Speer’s self-perception of power and glory.

In 1949, Hitler’s official residence was demolished and vanished from sight—until its unexpected reemergence in 2008.

While excavating the foundation for a new building at the intersection of Voßstraße and Ebertstraße, fragments of a window section from the New Reich Chancellery were unearthed.

The window fragments now symbolically lie collapsed as the end of Hitler’s Third Reich on Blochplatz, located in the Gesundbrunnen neighborhood.

It’s unclear which wing or floor of the massive building the fragments came from. However, they might have been part of one of the Führer’s private rooms and thus Hitler’s window.

It is rumored that marble from the New Reich Chancellery was repurposed for reconstructing the Mohrenstraße U-Bahn station and for building the three Soviet War Memorials in Tiergarten, Treptower Park, and Schönholzer Heide. However, this claim remains neither confirmed nor debunked.