‘Under the Sign of the Eagle’ - German War Memorials and Cemeteries (1911-1945).

Wilhelm Kreis (1873-1955) was a prominent architect and prestigious professor. An intellectual very close to power who directed and conditioned choices while being ambiguously on the margins of political activity, he dominated the architectural scene for almost five decades. Kreis took part in and to a certain extent directed, as architect and master, part of major events in Architectural and Urban Planning that involved the biggest German cities up to the fall of the Third Reich. Together with Bonatz, Behrens, Tessenow, Kreis can be considered one of the most influential and unparalleled leaders in German architectural culture - prophet of spirituality and watchman of values from Deutschtum. His work, up to his death, was devoted to consolidating the heroic, as well as the political and military myth through celebrations or simple project evocation of some of the most impressive, complex, funerary monuments of 20th century European history. --