{"product_id":"hitlers-northern-utopia-building-the-new-order-in-occupied-norway-paperback","title":"Hitler's Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDespina Stratigakos\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model \"Aryan\" society in Norway during World War II\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBetween 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 \u003ci\u003eHitler's Northern Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on extraordinary unpublished diaries, photographs, and maps, as well as newspapers from the period, \u003ci\u003eHitler's Northern Utopia \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of a broad range of completed and unrealized architectural and infrastructure projects far beyond the well-known German military defenses built on Norway's Atlantic coast. These ventures included maternity centers, cultural and recreational facilities for German soldiers, and a plan to create quintessential National Socialist communities out of twenty-three towns damaged in the German invasion, an overhaul Norwegian architects were expected to lead. The most ambitious scheme--a German cultural capital and naval base--remained a closely guarded secret for fear of provoking Norwegian resistance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA gripping account of the rise of a Nazi landscape in occupied Norway, \u003ci\u003eHitler's Northern Utopia \u003c\/i\u003ereveals a haunting vision of what might have been--a world colonized under the swastika.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDespina Stratigakos\u003c\/b\u003e is a vice provost and professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eHitler at Home \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhere Are the Women Architects?\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton), and has written on Nazi Germany for \u003ci\u003eArchitect Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBBC History Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Buffalo, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50333296197869,"sku":"9780691234137","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/ovGjsaWBUC9780691234137.webp?v=1784982985","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/hitlers-northern-utopia-building-the-new-order-in-occupied-norway-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}