The lightbringer
Bernhard Hoetger, a German architect and artist of the Expressionist Movement, helped implement Roselius’s vision, designing the houses to be of special architectural merit. They dedicated the alley to Hitler by placing a bronze relief at its entrance called “The Lightbringer” that shows a man with a sword descending from the sky and attacking a dragon. Their aim was to glorify Hitler’s victory over the so-called “powers of darkness”. Their reward? The Führer rejected their efforts as “degenerate art”.