“[Albert] Speer’s most impressive architectural accomplishment was probably his stage-management of the 1934 Nuremurg Rally, for which most of Goering’s stock of searchlighs was brought to the Zeppelin Field:

‘The hundred and thirty sharply defined beams, placed around the field at intervals of forty feet, were visible to a height of twenty to twenty-five thousand feet. . . . The feeling was of a vast room, with the beams serving as mighty pillars of infinitely high outer walls. Now and then a cloud moved through this wreath of lights, bringing an element of surrealistic surprise to the mirage. . . . The effect . . . was like being in a cathedral of ice.’”

—Bill Risebero, The Story of Western Architecture, 1979. The source of the quote within is unstated.