Other viewers have voiced this criticism before as well. It's the most common criticism of the video, you are probably the 20th person or so bringing it up.
And I do not really have an answer to this. I have many times wondered about this myself.
Possible explanations:
- Since they build thousands of buildings, and most of them were actually temporary, people may have forgotten that some of those buildings were there already before the construction process started. Two World Wars happened afterwards, people probably had other problems.
- Some fotos, like the one of the Chicago Railway Station, implicate the buildings show signs of relocation.
- The mystery with the World's Fairs isn't actually that they lied about the construction timeline, but that they lied about the construction methods - maybe they covered everything up because they actually used "old-world" building methods. This would explain why they were able to build hundreds of massive buildings in often less then 1-2 years, but had difficulties documenting the construction process.
When you look at the evidence we have provided, you will see many discrepancies that stand on it's own even if you don't believe our conclusions - some things simply do not add up, for example the desire to destroy most of the buildings even though they were still perfectly capable ot being used.
We are looking at a world-wide industrial-grade production of perfect classical buildings by industrialists with no apparent motivation to build like that.
Just look at the Bremen Expo, and how the very architect responsible for the Expo attacked the main building, and afterwards it went up in flames. If this isn't a smoking gun, what is? That building, if still standing, would be the absolute glory of Bremen today. Even if half of the city didn't get destroyed in WW2. I bet he had the task to destroy the building, but he wasn't able to convince the public, so in the end they decided to simply burn it down. I really like the part about Bremen in the docu. The example of the modern steel bridge is also very interesting. The Bremen Newspaper "Weserkurier" itself noted how absurd the contrast is between the modern bridge and the classical buildings - both said to be built at the same time by the same people.
We also received some comments under the german video where people said that their grandparents talked about how the World's Fairs were a cover-up.
Additionally, we received praise by people who should know what they talk about - architects.
Here's a translation of the top comment under our german video:
Incredible! Am architect and many things were completely unknown to me from the "world exhibitions". It is so monumental what is described here that it makes me queasy when I think of the broad masses of people who have 0 idea. Thank you for the mega work!