This book traces cultural landscape as the manifestation of the state
and national community under the Nazi regime, and how the Nazi era
produced what could be referred to as a totalitarian cultural
landscape. For the Nazi regime, cultural landscape was indeed a
heritage resource, but it was much more than that: cultural landscape
was the nation. The project of Nazi racial purification and cultural
renewal demanded the physical reshaping and reconceptualization of the
existing environment to create the so-called "new Nazi cultural
landscape." One of the most important components of this was a set of
monumental sites thought to embody blood and soil beliefs through the
harmonious synthesis of architecture and landscape. This special group
of "landscape-bound" architectural complexes was interconnected by the
new autobahn highway system, itself thought to be a monumental work
embedded in nature. Behind this intentionally aestheticized view of
the nation as cultural landscape lay the all-pervasive system of
deception and violence that characterized the emerging totalitarian
state. This is the first historical study to consider the importance
of these monumental sites together with the autobahn as evidence of
key Nazi cultural and geographic strategies during the pre-war years.
This book concludes by examining racial and nationalistic themes
underlying cultural landscape concepts today, against this historic
background.
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ISBN
9781000640700
Publisert
2024
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Routledge
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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