• Complain

Despina Stratigakos - Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway

Here you can read online Despina Stratigakos - Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2020, publisher: Princeton University Press, genre: Art. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

No cover
  • Book:
    Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
    Princeton University Press
  • Genre:
  • Year:
    2020
  • Rating:
    5 / 5
  • Favourites:
    Add to favourites
  • Your mark:
    • 100
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

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 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 Hitlers Northern Utopia, Despina Stratigakos provides the first major history of Nazi efforts to build a Nordic empireone that they believed would improve their genetic stock and confirm their destiny as a new order of Vikings.Drawing on extraordinary unpublished diaries, photographs, and maps, as well as newspapers from the period, Hitlers Northern Utopia tells the story of a broad range of completed and unrealized architectural and infrastructure projects far beyond the well-known German military defenses built on Norways 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 schemea German cultural capital and naval baseremained a closely guarded secret for fear of provoking Norwegian resistance.A gripping account of the rise of a Nazi landscape in occupied Norway, Hitlers Northern Utopia reveals a haunting vision of what might have beena world colonized under the swastika.

Despina Stratigakos: author's other books


Who wrote Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make
Contents
Guide

Hitlers Northern Utopia Hitlers Northern Utopia Building the New Order in - photo 1

Hitlers
Northern
Utopia

Hitlers
Northern
Utopia

Building the
New Order
in Occupied
Norway

DESPINA STRATIGAKOS

Princeton University Press | Princeton and Oxford

Copyright 2020 by Princeton University Press

Requests for permission to reproduce material from this
work should be sent to
Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street,
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street,
Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TR
press.princeton.edu

Jacket illustrations: (front top) Scenery observed by Adolf Hitler on board the Deutschland in the Norwegian fjords, April 1934 (detail). Adolf Hitler: Bilder aus dem Leben des Fhrers. Altona/Bahrenfeld: Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, 1936; and (front bottom and back): Undated model of Narviks reconstructed center, with obelisks in front of the marching square by the Parteihaus (detail). Lars Olof Larsson Collection, Kiel.

All Rights Reserved

ISBN 978-0-691-19821-7

ISBN (e-book) 978-0-691-21090-2
Version 1.0

British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available

Designed by Chris Crochetire, BW&A Books, Inc.

To my father
for lessons on politics and politicians
and on reading between the lines

Contents

ix

Acknowledgments

T he germ of this book goes back many years, to a chance encounter in the German Federal Archives in Berlin. While researching another subject, I came across a file about Hitlers secret plans to build a city in occupied Norway. I knew nothing about the Nazis building projects in this northern country and could find little in the history books to enlighten me. In the long interval between that initial discovery and the completion of this manuscript, I was joined by many colleagues and friends in the quest to unravel an archival mystery.

The project was launched at the Art in Battle conference held in Bergen in August 2014, which brought together an international group of scholars to explore how art was used for propaganda during the Nazi occupation of Norway. I would like to thank the organizers and participants for encouraging me to turn the fragmentary story about architecture that I presented there into a full-fledged book: Line Daatland, Terje Emberland, Matthew Feldman, Christian Fuhrmeister, Anita Kongssund, Gregory Maertz, Dag Solhjell, Erik Tonning, James van Dyke, and Eirik Vassenden. I am also grateful to Shelley Hornstein, Paul Jaskot, Barbara Miller Lane, and Clarence B. Sheffield Jr. for their enthusiasm and support in the projects exploratory stages.

Over three consecutive summers, from 2015 to 2017, Lars Olof Larsson opened his collection and home to me in Kiel. His unstinting help with my research has profoundly shaped the book. In Oslo, Ketil Gjlme Andersen welcomed me with a personal tour of an exhibition he curated on the Organisation Todt and, later, shared his writings and offered feedback on mine. Mari Lending hosted me in Oslo and connected me to her professional networks. At the Army Museum in Trondheim, Frode Lindgjerdet spent hours guiding me through their archival collections and tracking down additional local sources. Michael Stokke shared his research on prisoners of war in ysand. Helga Stave Tvinnereim went above and beyond in closing some research gaps concerning Sverre Pedersen. I am grateful for my fabulous research assistants, who pursued images and texts while completing their own graduate studies in history and architecture: Sophia Clark, Ingrid Roede, and Alexander Tunby Rosseland.

A number of organizations have generously supported my research and writing. I received grants to travel to archives in Germany, Norway, and the United States from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society. In 201617, I had the honor of being a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. During that year, in IAS workshops and lunchtime conversations, the formless mound of research collected on archival trips was distilled and refined into book chapters. I am indebted to Yve-Alain Bois as well as to Roland Betancourt, Malcolm Bull, Emine Fetvaci, Yu-chih Lai, Rebecca Maloy, Daniel Sherman, and Nancy Sinkoff. After my return to the University at Buffalo, Robert Shibley and Charles Zukoski ensured that I would have the time I needed to complete the whole.

At Princeton University Press, I had the pleasure to work once again with Michelle Komie. Her many contributions to this book, including lively meals in Lambertville, made this project a joy. The manuscripts two anonymous readers gave excellent advice on structuring the narrative. I owe a special debt to Nancy Eklund Later, who, with wit, elegance, and a sure step, accompanied me through the thickets of writing. Credit for the smooth finish goes to Lauren Lepow and her fine editorial skills.

To the friends and family members who turned up in Berlin, Oslo, Trondheim, and other placesthank you for getting me out of the archive. I am glad I had the chance to walk the shores of ysand on a freezing day in August, bowl in a former German submarine bunker in Trondheim, and listen to jazz in Molde. We should do it again.

Hitlers
Northern
Utopia

Introduction
Hitler in the Fjords

i1 Adolf Hitler observes the scenery on board the Deutschland in the - photo 2

i.1. Adolf Hitler observes the scenery on board the Deutschland in the Norwegian fjords, April 1934.

T he weather was exceptionally beautiful on Thursday, April 12, 1934, when Hitler cruised into the Sogne Fjord on Norways west coast (). He was sailing on the Deutschland, Germanys new pocket battleship, accompanied by naval commander in chief Admiral Erich Raeder and defense minister Colonel General Werner von Blomberg. The voyage was not publicized, surprising Germans and Norwegians alike when news of it leaked to the press. It was Hitlers first journey abroad since becoming chancellor, yet no one could say what he was doing in Norway.

The Norwegian government had been given little warning that the Deutschland was coming. German Foreign Office records in Berlin reveal a hastily planned trip. A telegram sent to the German Embassy in Oslo on April 7 asked that the local government be informed of the ships training exercises, which might involve passage through Norways territorial sea. There was no intention to enter the countrys inland waters, which required permission from the Norwegian government.

But a last-minute change of plans to tour the Sogne Fjord in order to show guests on board its scenic beauty left German diplomats in Oslo scrambling to alert Norwegian authorities before the battleship entered the fjord at 7:30 a.m. on April 12. A German Foreign Office memo composed later that day now described the voyage as a short vacation for the Fhrer, the admiral, and the defense minister, and made clear their intention to travel quasi-incognito, without flying their respective flags. As a result, they expected the presence of the ship to garner little attention from the Norwegian side.

The secret of who was on board was quickly exposed, however, when a Norwegian pilot, Martin Karlsen, embarked to navigate the heavy cruiser through the fjord and was greeted by a smiling Hitler. Interviewed by the Norwegian newspaper Tidens Tegn (Sign of the Times), Karlsen enthused over the German chancellor and star passenger: He went around the deck and talked to everyone, sailors and officers, and their rank did not seem to matter to him. Everyone on board really liked himat least, that is my impression. I thought he was a pleasant and convivial man.... He was so modest, and the only medal that hung on his suit was the Iron Cross that he was awarded during the world war for personal valor. He was easygoing and friendly with the sailors on board. Moreover, his behavior was completely similar toward the generals and the subordinates.

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway»

Look at similar books to Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway»

Discussion, reviews of the book Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.