Hitler's Geographies : The Spatialities of the Third Reich / Paolo Giaccaria, Claudio Minca.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giaccaria, Paolo, Editor.

Minca, Claudio, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National socialism.

Geography--Political aspects.

Geography.

Germany--History--1933-1945.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lebensraum: the entitlement of "legitimate" Germans to living space. Entfernung: the expulsion of "undesirables" to create empty space for German resettlement. During his thirteen years leading Germany, Hitler developed and made use of a number of powerful geostrategical concepts such as these in order to justify his imperialist expansion, exploitation, and genocide. As his twisted manifestation of spatial theory grew in Nazi ideology, it created a new and violent relationship between people and space in Germany and beyond. With Hitler's Geographies, editors Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca examine the variety of ways in which spatial theory evolved and was translated into real-world action under the Third Reich. They have gathered an outstanding collection by leading scholars, presenting key concepts and figures as well exploring the undeniable link between biopolitical power and spatial expansion and exclusion.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Hitler's Geographies, Nazi Spatialities

1 For a Tentative Spatial Theory of the Third Reich

2 Holocaust Spaces

3 In Service of Empire: Geographers at Berlin's University between Colonial Studies and Ostforschung (Eastern Research)

4 The East as Historical Imagination and the Germanization Policies of the Third Reich

5 Race contra Space: Th e Confl ict between German Geopolitik and National Socialism

6 Back Breeding the Aurochs: Th e Heck Brothers, National Socialism, and Imagined Geographies for Non-Human Lebensraum

7 National Socialism and the Politics of Calculation

8 Applied Geography and Area Research in Nazi Society: Central Place Th eory and Planning, 1933-1945

9 A Morality Tale of Two Location Th eorists in Hitler's Germany: Walter Christaller and August Lösch

10 Social Engineering, National Demography, and Political Economy in Nazi Germany: Gottfried Feder and His New Town Concept

11 Nazi Biopolitics and the Dark Geographies of the Selva

12 Geographies of Ghettoization: Absences, Presences, and Boundaries

13 Spaces of Engagement and the Geographies of Obligation: Responses to the Holocaust

14 Hello Darkness: Envoi and Caveat

15 Th e Interruption of Witnessing: Relations of Distance and Proximity in Claude Lanzmann's Shoah

16 A Mobile Holocaust? Rethinking Testimony with Cultural Geography

17 What Remains? Sites of Deportation in Contemporary European Daily Life: Th e Case of Drancy

Acknowledgments

Contributor Biographies

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226274560 (eBook)

OCLC:

945577395