Attack, Triumph, Terror in a European Context
1933–1945

Harald Bodenschatz / Victoria Grau /
Christiane Post / Max Welch Guerra (eds.)

Uwe Altrock, Harald Bodenschatz,
Victoria Grau, Jannik Noeske, Christiane Post,
and Max Welch Guerra

With contributions by Christian von Oppen
and Piero Sassi

Urban planning was an essential instrument of the Nazi dictatorship. It served to legitimize rule, to produce approval, and to demonstrate strength, it accompanied rearmament and war, it conveyed the dictatorship's sociopolitical program at home and abroad, it was a medium of competition with democratic states and above all with other European dictatorships, it bound old and new experts to the dictatorship and systematically marginalized population groups. 

This book is the culmination of Harald Bodenschatz's and a changing group of international experts' long involvement with the subject of urban planning and dictatorship, for example in the Soviet Union, Italy and Portugal. For the first time, urban planning under Nazi rule is examined not only in its extraordinary dynamics, but also in the context of other European dictatorships of the time. For between 1933 and 1945, the major themes of urban planning, the most important players, the cities affected and the areas to be developed in these cities, the programs and practices, the winners and losers changed several times. 

The result is a multi-layered picture that goes beyond the presentation of well-known representative buildings and also takes into account central themes such as old town renewal, internal colonization, the creation of industrial areas, educational institutions and camps.