Driving Germany

Driving Germany
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9780857452269
ISBN-13 : 0857452266
Rating : 4/5 (266 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Driving Germany by : Thomas Zeller

Download or read book Driving Germany written by Thomas Zeller and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Hitler's autobahn was more than just the pet project of an infrastructure-friendly dictator. It was supposed to revolutionize the transportation sector in Germany, connect the metropoles with the countryside, and encourage motorization. The propaganda machinery of the Third Reich turned the autobahn into a hyped-up icon of the dictatorship. One of the claims was that the roads would reconcile nature and technology. Rather than destroying the environment, they would embellish the landscape. Many historians have taken this claim at face value and concluded that the Nazi regime harbored an inbred love of nature. In this book, the author argues that such conclusions are misleading. Based on rich archival research, the book provides the first scholarly account of the landscape of the autobahn.


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