Retain as much pre war architecture as possible

[DUWANG]

With a post Battle of Stalingrad POD, how could we preserve more of the pre-war buildings that were in OTL destroyed duo to the war, socialist dictatorships, modern architects, living space and cost issues and the general trend of "away with the old, bring forth the new!"?

Conditions are that Germany has to capitulate with uncoditional surrender and that the western Allies and aligned states control at least everyting that they did at OTL.
Do we need a shorter war? A war with different strategies regarding bombings and artillery or less Soviet influence in eastern Europe? Do we need to spare or kill certain people to change OTL's result?

Or is the way we moved OTL just inevitable after the fall of France?

 

[Lalli]

Perhaps Operation Valkyrie succeeds. At least in Germany more of architecture could survive.

 

[Mad Bad Rabbit]

Postwar architects and urban planners adopt the notion that modernism == fascism, some critics literally blaming dehumanizing styles like Bauhaus for the war. It is agreed that wherever possible, prewar buildings should be restored or re-created from scratch; and new construction should follow a revived Beaux-Arts aesthetic.