The biggest palaces, the biggest boulevards, the biggest gateways, the biggest towers. The whole city is a monument to the phallic insecurity of the gallic male, and his need to compensate.
"Is this it?"
so when another small insecure man came to paris, his reaction was no surprise. "Is this it?" he asked. He had previously thought that Paris's size and grandeur might require a castration. But now he decided that his Berlin was going to be so much bigger and more imposing by the time he was done, that Paris would look small and crooked in comparison anyway. It would be better to let it remain, so everyone would see the proof that his city was the greater one!
Lucky for Paris that Hitler was feeling so confident.