{"product_id":"hitlers-northern-utopia-despina-stratigakos-9780691198217","title":"Hitler's Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway","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 \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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on extraordinary unpublished diaries, photographs, and maps, as well as newspapers from the period, \u003ci\u003eHitler's Northern Utopia \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of a broad range of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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Despina Stratigakos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691198217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691198217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.30w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2022","brand":"Despina Stratigakos","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44043691524351,"sku":"9780691198217","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7f73d4d7-88a1-42d2-b1d6-91bde0080a1e.jpg?v=1684968594","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hitlers-northern-utopia-despina-stratigakos-9780691198217","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}