{"product_id":"hitlers-northern-utopia-building-the-new-order-in-occupied-norway-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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on extraordinary unpublished diaries, photographs, and maps, as well as newspapers from the period, \u003ci\u003eHitler's Northern Utopia \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of a broad range of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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50478293385490,"sku":"9780691198217","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8c2454cf-c26e-4f47-84ac-e9a5bedfa869.jpg?v=1737127099","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hitlers-northern-utopia-building-the-new-order-in-occupied-norway-9780691198217","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}