The beginning of the Third Reich saw the construction of large architectural structures to host and aesthetically frame Nazi mass events. The significance of these buildings cannot be understood without the propaganda and mass performances that constituted their contemporary frame of reception. This article discusses the Gauforum project in Weimar, constructed from 1937 until 1944. Combining an analysis of common architecture-related propaganda tropes with an examination of architectural design and a reading of the ceremony of laying the first foundation stone, it shows how these elements performed the longed-for Volksgemeinschaft. By framing construction works as the expression of national achievement and an ongoing revolutionary renewal of the nation, Nazi-era architecture propaganda discursively primed the ground for interplay between the material arrangements of architecture and events that afforded an experience of the mythical spatiotemporality of the Volksgemeinschaft. In this way, Nazi architectural propaganda played an efficacious part in the politics of mass events.

第三帝国之初，人们建造了大型建筑结构来举办纳粹群众活动并在美学上塑造其框架。如果没有构成其当代接受框架的宣传和群众表演，就无法理解这些建筑的重要性。本文讨论了魏玛的 Gauforum 项目，该项目建于 1937 年至 1944 年。结合对常见建筑相关宣传比喻的分析、对建筑设计的考察以及对奠基仪式的解读，展示了这些元素如何发挥作用人们向往的国民议会。通过将建筑工程视为国家成就和国家持续革命更新的表达，纳粹时代的建筑宣传为建筑的物质安排和事件之间的相互作用奠定了基础，从而提供了民族共同体神秘时空的体验。通过这种方式，纳粹建筑宣传在群众事件的政治中发挥了有效的作用。