{"product_id":"architecture-and-the-nazi-cultural-landscape","title":"Architecture and the Nazi Cultural Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book traces cultural landscape as the manifestation of the state and national community under the Nazi regime, and how the Nazi era produced what could be referred to as a totalitarian cultural landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the Nazi regime, cultural landscape was indeed a heritage resource, but it was much more than that: cultural landscape \u003ci\u003ewas\u003c\/i\u003e the nation. The project of Nazi racial purification and cultural renewal demanded the physical reshaping and reconceptualization of the existing environment to create the so-called \"new Nazi cultural landscape.\" One of the most important components of this was a set of monumental sites thought to embody blood and soil beliefs through the harmonious synthesis of architecture and landscape. This special group of \"landscape-bound\" architectural complexes was interconnected by the new autobahn highway system, itself thought to be a monumental work embedded in nature. Behind this intentionally aestheticized view of the nation as cultural landscape lay the all-pervasive system of deception and violence that characterized the emerging totalitarian state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first historical study to consider the importance of these monumental sites together with the autobahn as evidence of key Nazi cultural and geographic strategies during the pre-war years. This book concludes by examining racial and nationalistic themes underlying cultural landscape concepts today, against this historic background.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45542419628270,"sku":"9781032276939","price":62.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/architecture-and-the-nazi-cultural-landscape","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}