For a Tentative Spatial Theory of the Third Reich
For a Tentative Spatial Theory of the Third Reich
The ‘deep’ spatialities of the Nazi project, while acknowledged in many historical accounts, remain largely unexplored in their complex genealogies and architectures. In particular, what is distinctive about the Third Reich real and imagined geographies is the close relationship between theory and practice, a unique combination of spatial fantasies and related interventions ‘in space’. A specific biological/racial imagination (centered on the notions of Rasse and Volk) and an equally specific spatial/geopolitical vision (related to the concepts of Lebensraum and Grossraum) lie at the core of Nazi ideology. The aim of this introductory chapter to Hitler’s Geographies is to discuss how these questions may be examined from a geographical perspective – and through a set of geographical theories and conceptualizations.
Keywords: Geopolitik, Lebensraum, geography, Hitlerism, Volk, biopolitics, geopolitics
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