From the Nazi rallying grounds in Nürnberg:
From the “Street of Human Rights” outside of the Germanic Museum, also in Nürnberg:
A tree rather than a column:
(Meant to signify all the world’s language that couldn’t be represented on the columns)
What the former nazi rally grounds look like today:
(more comparisons of then and now here. It’s interesting to see, because the nazis specifically built things with intent that they should be majestic ruins in a thousand year’s time)