Nazi Housing Development
The
government of Chancellor Brüning in 1931 established the small
settlement programme in order "to promote the population becoming
settled in the country to reduce unemployment and to facilitate
sufficient living conditions for the unemployed." The future settlers
were to be involved in the establishment of their own homes and gardens
and small animal husbandry to improve their supply in the economic
crisis. The Nazis took over the model because it fit into their
anti-modern and anti-urban ideology.
According to Geoff Walden of Third Reich in Ruins,
this first building at Kurfürstenplatz "was likely part of a Third
Reich neighbourhood housing development (Siedlung) built in 1938. The
Siedlung included a savings bank and a police office, and this building
may have been one of those." friend_of_Obersalzberg, who contributed the photo on the left, confirms that it was built in 1938 by architect and graduate engineer Hans Atzenbeck.
At that time it was necessary to build new healthy and cheap apartments in Munich. It has five entrances and thus five living units. In the first floor (Erdgeschoß) were stores. In the courtyard was a fountain with a sculpture of a drumming Hitlerjunge. The swastikas and the fountain were removed after war.

Google
Street view actually blocks the image of the entire building! Google
isn't known for respecting privacy, so could this have been pushed by
the authorities given the remaining Nazi-era reliefs?
The site on February 26, 1938 when it was officially opened.
It was reported at the time that
It was reported at the time that
[t]he topping-out ceremony for the new residential buildings of the Städtische Sparkasse, which will also include new rooms for the Sparkasse branch and the northern police section, will take place on Kurfürstenplatz Mayor Fiehler then points out that a number of needs resulted in the need for the new building, such as the space requirements of the savings bank, the police, the creation of apartments and the necessary redesign of the square to create an appealing urban design.
Starting in 1938, the blocks of flats with 37 2½- to 3½-room flats, a savings bank branch, a police detachment with affiliated shops and a coffee house were built. After the Second World War, house number 5 was the location of the Municipal Police Office North of the then Munich City Police for a long time.


The
coat of arms of Munich on the building with its form under the Nazis
and today. On the right the Nazi version reappears on the clothing of a
neo-Nazi in Munich.
Better photos of the building can be found on the the Munich thread at Axis History.
These
siedlung on Klugstrasse all have bizarre Third Reich, astrological,
masonic, and other obscure symbols over every door frame leading inside.
To me, it's incredible that they continue to survive and form the
entrances to people's homes:
The swastika is still faintly visible...
...whilst this one, dated 1933, is obscured by the shaking hands
Here the hakenkreuz has been erased, but the Nazi salutes allowed to remain!
Another excised swastika that completed the DAF symbol
And yet a couple have had their bizarre symbols completely removed.





The
left image shows swords and a steel helmet whilst the one on the right
reminds me of the lesson from the Disney wartime cartoon Education for Death...

The
settlement at Ramersdorf was opened on June 9, 1934 to serve as a model
for future settlement projects in Germany. Designed by Guido Habers,
this siedlung on Stephanskirchener Straße provided 192 homes with 34 different building types and
planned as an alternative to the multi-storey urban houses. The
ensemble is self-contained and , pursuant to the garden city idea
numerous green spaces. As executive architects, among others,
Friedrich Ferdinand Haindl, Sep Ruf, Franz Ruf, Lois Knidberger, Albert
Heichlinger, Max Dellefant, Theo Pabst, Christoph Miller, Hanna Loev
Delisle and Charles were responsible for the buildings. The hoped-for
propaganda effect of the settlement did not materialise because, among
other things, the generous living space for those days 56-129 m2 and
individual modernist elements were criticised.
After the exhibition, the settlement houses were sold as homes. In 1935
a Protestant church building was opened with the Gustav Adolf Church in
the settlement as shown in the then-and-now photos.
A number of frescoes remain, barely, from 1934:

St. Christopher on Stephanskirchener Straße 20. When I last visited in February 2018, it appeared to have been removed.

Further down at Schlechinger Weg 8 is this image of a German African colonial soldier. The original owner had served in Deutsch-Südwestafrika and designed the crest himself before giving it to the artist, Günther Graßmann.
Another by Günther Graßmann at Schlechinger Weg 10. The pointer of the sundial is at the centre of a sun, with the dial in the form of an harp. As can be seen in the 1934 photo, the bottom of the fresco depicts a sailing ship. Graßmann was involved in another sundial for the church of St. Raphael, München-Hartmannshofen; I think he was involved in its stained glass, as well: http://www.sankt-raphael-muenchen.de/sonstiges.html
Remarkably, the Adolf-Hitler-Brunnen still remains intact at Herrenchiemseestraße 44.
On
the base of the fountain a swastika with a lime leaf in raised relief
was etched and at the back was the following inscription:
DIESER·BRUNNEN·
WURDE·UNTER·DER HITLERLINDE·
UND·GLEICHZEITIG·MIT·DIESER·GESETZT·
ZUR·ERÖFFNUNG·DER·DEUTSCHEN·SIEDLUNGS·AUSSTELLUNG·
MÜNCHEN·1934
The
blocks of stone with the swastika and lime leaf above the water spout
were removed after 1945 as was the term " Hitler Linde". This fountain
is one of the 75 drinking water wells in Munich.
Another
water well at Törwanger Straße 2. In 1938 a small mosaic was set up as
seen in the photo with a swastika by the painter Günther Grassmann. The
mosaic has been coated with a thin layer of plaster and is left empty,
the well no longer in operation.
Siedlung Am Hart


The
Am Hart settlement goes back to the Reichskleinsiedlungsprogramm, which
Reichskanzler Heinrich Brüning had initiated on October 6, 1931 by
emergency order. The Reichsginsiedlungsprogramm was mainly for the
unemployed and provided for the erection of simply equipped housing
estates. All settlements were equipped with large gardening grounds for
the cultivation of fruits and vegetables and for keeping small animals
in order to allow for extensive self-sufficiency. After the end of the
Weimar Republic the National Socialists continued the program, but put
it into the service Their ideology. After two years of construction, the
Reichskleinsiedlung Am Hart, which was adorned with swastikas, was
officially handed over by Lord Mayor Karl Fiehler on September 8, 1935.
The expansion of the Nazi regime was reflected in the naming of streets:
Arnauer Strasse, Egerländerstrasse, Kaadener Strasse, Karlsbader
Strasse, Marienbader Strasse and Sudetendeutsche Strasse were already in
1934 after cities in the west of the Czechoslovak Republic or the one
living there German-speaking population, which Nazi propaganda wanted to
bring "home to the Reich" by means of a territorial union.


The
Volksschule at Rothpletzstraße 40 originally bore the inscription:
"This school building was built between 1938 and 1939 at the time of the
return of the Sudetenland to the German Reich." It remains unchanged
apart from the Nazi eagle which has been removed.
Siedlung Neuherberge
In August 1936, west of Ingolstädter Strasse, the Neuherberge settlement consisting of 169 small houses was completed. Those chosen to live here were selected according to criteria of the Nazi ideology. The settlements enjoyed a large portion of the garden for self-sufficiency and were intended primarily for poor families with many aryan families. Many of the settled settlers were employed as civilian workers in the neighbouring barracks or in the armaments industry. The central square of the settlement, the Spengelplatz, was originally named after a young Hitler Youth member. After the Second World War it was rededicated to the landscape painter Johann Ferdinand Spengel.
Siedlung Kaltherberge

In
1936-1937, east of Ingolstädter Strasse, the Kleinsiedlung
Kaltherberge, whose only direct access had ever been via
Gundelkoferstraße, was founded as a self-employed settlement for needy
workers' families. The Mettenleiterplatz is the centre of the
settlement, which originally consisted of 221 settlements. The Nazi
planners had originally named the square after one of the killed
participants of the so-called "Hitler Putsch" whom Nazi propaganda
worshipped as one of the "blood martyrs of the movement." After the war the place became after Johann Michael Mettenleiter, a copper cutter and lithographer. On December 4, 1945, the American Army confiscated all houses of the settlement, including the
facility, to accommodate about 2,000 Displaced Persons under the care of
the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRR).
Among those were numerous Jews from Eastern Europe who wanted to leave
Munich to the USA or to British Palestine. The previous residents of the
settlement had to leave their houses and were temporarily accommodated
by the Munich housing office; by 1949 most were able to return to their
homes.
Siedlung Neuherberge
With the ϟϟ-Deutschland-Kaserne in the background seen December 1938.
In August 1936, west of Ingolstädter Strasse, the Neuherberge settlement consisting of 169 small houses was completed. Those chosen to live here were selected according to criteria of the Nazi ideology. The settlements enjoyed a large portion of the garden for self-sufficiency and were intended primarily for poor families with many aryan families. Many of the settled settlers were employed as civilian workers in the neighbouring barracks or in the armaments industry. The central square of the settlement, the Spengelplatz, was originally named after a young Hitler Youth member. After the Second World War it was rededicated to the landscape painter Johann Ferdinand Spengel.
Siedlung Kaltherberge


Siedlung on Erich Kästner str.
This example of a siedlung consists of an huge building and on all four corners there are Third Reich reliefs.
The swastikas have been wiped out from the bottom of each relief
Another
surviving building from the Nazi era with its iconography intact (with
the colour still maintained) complete with reichsadler dating from 1936
found by odeon at Axis History Forum.
The Diana fountain on Kufsteiner Platz at the entrance to the Herzog Park in Bogenhausen. The Dianahaus in the background was destroyed during the war. It serves as a reminder that the area was formerly an almost impenetrable hunting area in Altwasssümpümpen within a meadow landscape with large deer. Thomas Mann recorded in his 1918 novella Herr und Hund his daily walks with his dog Bauschan in the immediate vicinity of his villa here.
The Diana fountain on Kufsteiner Platz at the entrance to the Herzog Park in Bogenhausen. The Dianahaus in the background was destroyed during the war. It serves as a reminder that the area was formerly an almost impenetrable hunting area in Altwasssümpümpen within a meadow landscape with large deer. Thomas Mann recorded in his 1918 novella Herr und Hund his daily walks with his dog Bauschan in the immediate vicinity of his villa here.
From
1933 to 1937 the Nazis set up Reichskleinsiedlung here at Am Hart,
Neuherberg and Kaltherberg after which time the housing policy
increasingly turned back to the multi-storey, which could be
accomplished more efficiently and cheaper.


On
the right is the Advent Church in Aubing (a locality of Munich), owned
and used by a congregation within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Bavaria. The foundation stone for the church was laid on the 1st Advent,
1938 shown here and from thus the church took its name. The building,
planned by architect Horst Schwabe, was consecrated on September 29,
1940 by Oberkirchenrat Oskar Daumiller. Nearby at the intersection of
Hohensteinstrasse and Hoheneckstrasse was a forced labour camp owned by
the Dornier company which was built in 1941 and consisted of nine
barracks. A total of 833 people, including 144 women, are said to have lived there, including Russians,
Ukrainians, French and Italians had to live. It was destroyed in a
bombing raid on July 21, 1944; the number of victims is unknown. The
reconstructed barracks were occupied with German-born refugees after the
war. In the 1980s, a modern housing estate was built on the site of the
former camp.
This building at Mariahilfplatz 4, shown in 1934 and today where it now serves as an hotel, was originally used as an Hitlerjugend-Heim.
Pullach






Although Hitler never visited the Pullach Führerbunker, the facility was used: Field Marshal Erwin Rommel prepared here in the summer of 1943 for the German invasion of the renegade ally Italy. Despite the fact that the Führerhauptquartier had never been used as intended, it nevertheless remained “in operation“ until the end of the war. The communications centre in the bunker was operated by signal soldiers and operators delegated from the Reichspost.




Heinrich
Himmler's daughter Gudrun arranged Anton Malloth's stay at this nursing
home in Pullach, a supervisor of Theresienstadt from 1988 to 2001,
until he was sentenced to life in prison.




Indeed, the real escape was by British and other allied personnel, none
by Americans. Coburn actually plays an Australian. Whilst Americans in
the PoW camp did initially help to build the tunnels and work on the
early escape plans, they were moved to their own compound seven months
before the tunnels were completed. A large part had been played by
Canadians, especially in the construction of the tunnels and in the
escape itself. Of the 1,800 or so PoWs in the compound of whom six
hundred were involved in preparations for the escape, 150 of these were
from the Dominion of Canada; Wally Floody, an RCAF pilot and mining
engineer who was the real-life “tunnel king”, was engaged as a technical
advisor for the film. Fourteen Germans were executed after the war for
their roles, which ended up being among the charges at the Nuremberg War
Crimes trial.