据《每日电讯报》1月22日报道，日前，曾作为纳粹德国总建筑师的艾伯特·施佩尔的设计草案在莫斯科档案博物馆的一间密室内被发现。莫斯科档案博物馆共发现了200箱施佩尔的设计草案。这些草案于第二次世界大战末被带到俄罗斯。施佩尔为希特勒构想了种种纳粹党统治下的柏林的宏伟蓝图已不是什么秘密，但计划在柏林修建一座立有墨索里尼塑像的德国版圣彼得广场还是让历史学家们大吃了一惊。

    从发现的资料来看，施佩尔已经制作出了围绕广场的罗马圆柱的模型。莫斯科档案博物馆馆长大卫·塞尔基西安透露说：“建造新柏林的计划在1940年已经完成。希特勒准备宣布德国为统治世界的王国，而在其首都柏林中心将建造一个和梵蒂冈圣彼得广场一模一样的德国版圣彼得广场。为纪念同盟伙伴墨索里尼，德国版圣彼得广场将不再修建喷泉，取而代之的是立一座墨索里尼的塑像。”

    塞尔基西安指出：“希特勒认为，‘不灭之城’罗马是世界上惟一能和柏林相提并论的城市，所以他想要通过各种方式来改造柏林。”施佩尔的文件资料显示，希特勒对他的各种设计构想很感兴趣，并对设计模型很满意。但1943年底，随着纳粹德国的逐渐瓦解，希特勒构建‘不灭之城’的梦想也随之化为泡影。

    报道说，二战末，德国纽伦堡军事法庭判处施佩尔20年监禁。1966，施佩尔获释后出版了回忆录，并于15年后在伦敦逝世。

    Adolf Hitler intended to recreate the Vatican's St Peter's Square in the centre of Berlin to honour his ally Benito Mussolini, newly discovered documents have revealed.

    Albert Speer, the fuhrer's chief architect, was commissioned to draw up the plans, which have been discovered by historians examining his papers.

    They had been stored in a secret room inside Moscow's Museum of Architecture after being taken to Russia at the end of the Second World War. 　

    In total, there were more than 200 boxes of files belonging to Speer, whose grand designs for the rebuilding of Nazi Berlin under Hitler were already well known.

    But the plans for a new, Germanic version of St Peter's Square - complete with a giant statue of Mussolini - in Berlin have astonished historians.

    Speer built a scale model of how he planned to recreate the columns of St Peter's Square, which encircle the piazza in front of the Basilica.

    The Moscow museum's director, David Sarkisian, told the Sunday Telegraph: "The plan was for the new Berlin to be ready in 1950 after Nazi Germany had defeated the Allies.

    Hitler would declare Germany the ruler of a world empire and at the centre of its capital Berlin was to be a recreation of St Peter's Square in the Vatican.

    "Speer's plans included the columns from the square and at the centre instead of a fountain as in Rome there would be a huge statue of Benito Mussolini.

    "Hitler considered the Eternal City [Rome] to be the only city in the world to rival Berlin so he wanted to better it in every way possible." Speer's documents show that Hitler took a great interest in the plans and was delighted with the architect's model.

    He also viewed several castings of Mussolini's statue which were commissioned but the plans were eventually abandoned at the end of 1943 as Germany neared defeat.

    At the end of the war, Speer was tried at Nuremburg and sentenced to 20 years in prison. After his release from Spandau in 1966, he published his memoirs and died in London 15 years later.