Wilhelm Grebe was one of Adolf Hitler

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's architects. Grebe noted that there were at least seventy different types of indigenous architecture in Nazi Germany

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 and that in the future it would be impossible to preserve all of them; standardization throughout Germany might be necessary in the future. Furthermore, he warned, it might prove impossible to use local materials in every case:

"We shall have to move ahead towards a healthy standardization."

Here was a suggestion for mass production of material for indigenous peasant architecture, which surely ran counter to everything volkisch writers sought.