Hitler's Northern Utopia : building the New Order in occupied Norway
Stratigakos, Despina2020
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The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model 'Aryan' society in Norway during World War II. 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. 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.
Main title:
Hitler's Northern Utopia : building the New Order in occupied Norway / Despina Stratigakos.
Author:
Stratigakos, Despina, author
Imprint:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]©2020
Collation:
x, 313 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780691198217 (hbk)
Dewey class:
720.94309044940.53481
LC class:
D802.N7
Local class:
720.943
Language:
English
Subject:
Architecture, German -- Norway -- HistoryNational socialism and architecture -- Norway -- History -- 20th centuryArchitecture and PlanningNorway -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945National socialism and architecture -- NorwayCity planning -- Norway -- History -- 20th centuryInfrastructure (Economics) -- Norway -- History -- 20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- NorwayWarfare and Defence
BRN:
2762191