Prior to WWII, Speer contributed to the Nazi concept of grandeur and superiority

It is a fact that prior to WWII, Speer contributed to the Nazi concept of grandeur and superiority. When Troost died on January 21, 1934, Speer took over as the Party's chief architect. Speer was named head of the Chief Office for Construction by Hitler, putting him officially on Hess's staff. The Nuremberg Zeppelinfeld stadium was one of Speer's first commissions after Troost's death. It was used for Nazi propaganda rallies and can be seen in the propaganda film Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl. The structure could hold 340,000 people. Speer insisted on holding as many events as possible at night, both to highlight his lighting effects and to conceal the overweight Nazis. Many official Nazi structures were built in Nuremberg. Many more structures were proposed. The German Stadium could have held 400,000 people if it had been built. Speer updated Werner March's Olympic Stadium design for the 1936 Summer Olympics. He enhanced the outside with stone, which pleased Hitler.

From 1934 to 1938, the Cathedral of Light, or Lichtdom, was a major artistic component of Nazi Party rallies at Nuremberg. It was designed by architect Albert Speer and consisted of 152 anti-aircraft searchlights directed skyward at 12-meter intervals to create a series of vertical bars around the audience. The Cathedral of Light was featured in the 1937 Nazi propaganda film Festliches Nürnberg. Though they were intended to be a temporary measure until the stadium was constructed, they were later utilized for party rallies. Eberhard von der Trappen collaborated with Speer to achieve a similar effect for the closing ceremony of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. The searchlights converged to a point above the audience in certain variations of the effect.