Urban planning was an essential instrument of the National Socialist dictatorship. It served to
legitimize rule and demonstrate strength accompanied rearmament and war conveyed the
socio-political program was a medium of competition with other states tied old and new
professionals to the regime and systematically marginalized population groups. In this book
urban planning under the Nazi dictatorship is for the first time examined not only as something
that evolved during the different periods of Nazi rule but also in the context of other
European dictatorships of the time. The period between 1933 and 1945 saw important changes in
the focus of Nazi urban planning. These affected the cast of principal actors the content of
the regime's propaganda cities and areas affected programs and practices and winners and
losers. The result of this survey is a multi-layered picture that goes beyond the usual
presentation of well-known power-projecting buildings to take into account a range of other
important aspects including housing construction urban renewal internal colonization
buildings for rearmament large-scale infrastructure industrial areas educational
institutions and camps. This volume marks the conclusion of a series of academic
publications on the subject of urban planning and dictatorship - in the Soviet Union Italy
Portugal and Spain.
