Main entry:

Hagen, Joshua, 1974- author.

Title & Author:

Building Nazi Germany : place, space, architecture, and ideology / Joshua Hagen and Robert C. Ostergren.

Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]
©2020

Description:

xiii, 496 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 452-481) and index.
Statism, totalitarianism, and national socialism -- Things to take your breath away : the Führer cities -- A Nazi civic spirit : reordering cities and towns -- From chaos to order and back again : home, hearth, and family life -- Mind, body, and heart : turning Germans into Nazis -- The machinery of conquest : the military-industrial complex -- Working toward genocide : camps of confinement, enslavement, and death -- Epilogue : the building and breaking of Nazi Germany.

Summary:

"This richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi Party seized power. Hagen and Ostergren show that it was far more than just an architectural and stylistic enterprise. Instead, it was a series of interrelated programs intended to thoroughly reorganize Germany's economic, cultural, and political landscapes. The authors trace the specific roles of its component parts--the monumental redevelopment and cleansing of cities; the construction of new civic landscapes for educational, athletic, and leisure pursuits; the improvement of transportation, industrial, and military infrastructures; and the creation of networked landscapes of fear, slave labor, and genocide. Through distinctive examples, the book draws out the ways in which combinations of place, space, and architecture were utilized as a cumulative means of undergirding the regime and its ambitions. The authors consider how these reshaped spaces were actually experienced and perceived by ordinary Germans, and in some cases the world at large, as the regime intentionally built a new Nazi Germany."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781538158333 paperback
1538158337 paperback
9780742567979 hardcover alkaline paper
0742567974 hardcover alkaline paper
electronic book
9780742567993

Subject:

National socialism and architecture.
Nazisme et architecture.

Added entries:

Ostergren, Robert Clifford, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306910
Call No.: BIB 252452
Status: Available