Hitlers Northern Utopia - Building the New Order in Occupied Norway

Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today, was designed to extend the Greater German Reich beyond the Arctic Circle and turn the Scandinavian country into a racial utopia. From ideal new cities to a scenic superhighway stretching from Berlin to northern Norway, plans to remake the country into a model "Aryan" society fired the imaginations of Hitler, his architect Albert Speer, and other Nazi leaders. In Hitler's Northern Utopia, Despina Stratigakos provides the first major history of Nazi efforts to build a Nordic empire--one that they believed would improve their genetic stock and confirm their destiny as a new order of Vikings.

About the author

Despina Stratigakos is a vice provost and professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is the author of Hitler at Home and Where Are the Women Architects? (Princeton), and has written on Nazi Germany for Architect Magazine, BBC History Magazine, and the Atlantic. She lives in Buffalo, New York.

Summary

The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "Aryan" society in Norway during World War IIBetween 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today, was designed to extend the Greater German Reich be

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Product details

• Authors: Despina Stratigakos, Stratigakos Despina
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9780691198217
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19821-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, Norway, military history, ART / European, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, City & town planning - architectural aspects, History of Architecture, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, 1933–1945 (National Socialist period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), City and town planning: architectural aspects, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Europe / Nordic Countries