Hitler's Northern Utopia av Despina Stratigakos

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<p><b>The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model ¿Aryan¿ society in Norway during World War II</b><br><br>Between 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 <i>Hitler¿s Northern Utopia</i>, 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.<br><br>Drawing on extraordinary unpublished diaries, photographs, and maps, as well