{"product_id":"hitler-8242-s-northern-utopia-8211","title":"Hitler 8242 S Northern Utopia 8211","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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genetic stock and confirm their destiny as a new order of Vikings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on extraordinary unpublished diaries, photographs, and maps, as well as newspapers from the period, \u003ci\u003eHitler’s Northern Utopia \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of a broad range of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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313874182526,"sku":"NW9780691234137","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780691234137.jpg?v=1778592846","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/hitler-8242-s-northern-utopia-8211","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}