Albert Speer Jr Helped Design The Beijing Olympics?

I did a search on this one, and it appears we DUers have missed a rather interesting
story about the Olympics ..

Olympic Hubris

Albert Speer's son helped design the architecture of the Beijing games. But the
similarities with Berlin 1936 don't end there.

From the article:

Speer Jr's commission was to lay out a master plan for the access to the Olympic
complex in Beijing. His design centered on the construction of an imposing avenue
to connect the Forbidden City and the National Stadium in which the opening
ceremony will take place. His father's plan for "Germania," the name Hitler selected
for the Berlin he planned to construct after the second world war, also relied on such
a mighty central axis.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/07/olympics2008.architecture

What does Bush have to do with this story?

One non sequitur for another.

I think it's interesting as hell that son of the man that would have had carte blanche to redesign Europe had the Nazis won accepted a commission from (nominally, at least) communist China. That's that kind of irony that hopefully has Albert Sr. spinning in his grave.

I'm sure were he alive, he'd be happy his designs were being considered, regardless of by whom.

One question - why do cities in the West host the games?

well that has to be just about the silliest godwinian commentary i've come across in a long time