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The Langemarck Hall is part of Berlin's Olympic Complex. It was built for the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, designed by Architect Werner March, the designer of the Olympic Stadium. Above the hall is the Bell Tower, also designed by March.
Today, the hall is seen as an example for how the Nazis misused the Olympic idea for their own political agenda. Langemark was a World War I battlefield at which ten of thousands of young and inexperienced German reserve-soldiers were marched to their death. Later, the victims were idolized in the Langemarck Myths and the hall served precisely that purpose. The building was damaged at the end of World War II and rebuilt between 1960 and 1962. Today, it hosts an exhibition of the history of the Olympic Complex.
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