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Architecture and History and Their Representations in German Propaganda in the Reichsgau Wartheland
Get PDFThe article sets out to describe the main ways with which architecture and urban planning were used for propaganda and Germanization purposes, the focus being on Warthegau. In the process, spatial planning was strictly combined with a particular economic programme and the replacement of local population. No other German-annexed territory witnessed so much deportations and extermination. The paper is divided into three sections, which discuss historical determinants, links with neighbouring administrative units, and different facets of modernization and its esthetic representations that can be traced in German spatial plans
Public Buildings and Urban Planning in Gdańsk/Danzig from 1933–1945
Get PDFThe article shows the development of NS-architecture and town planning in Danzig between the years 1933-1945 concerning its political, social and historical background. In two parts of the text, concerning years 1933-1939 and 1939-1945 the author shows that in many respects, Danzig may be compared to the Reich or even treated as its mirror reflection on a micro scale. To illustrate this thesis Załęska-Kaczko provides many examples of realized and unrealized plans of housing estates and monumental public architecture
Nazi Architecture in Poznań
Get PDFThe number and size of residential estates in Poznań demonstrate the importance of the Third Reich’s presence in its tangible form for the Nazi propaganda. The fact that the construction industry in Germany was almost at a standstill during World War II only adds to their relevance. Hanna Grzeszczuk-Brendel shows that the impartial interpretations of Nazi architecture as a style and yet another art trend fail to provide
an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon. Instead the author analysis the estates in Poznań in the context of other german plans for this city and offers new interpretation of their symbolical meaning in relation to main concepts of NS-ideology, like “blood and soil” or “the party group as a housing unit”
The Architecture of the Third Reich in Silesia and Spatial Planning in the “German East”
Get PDFThe article highlights major issues and problems regarding our understanding of the architecture of the Third Reich in Silesia through two examples: a public building of the Neue Regierung Office in Wrocław/Breslau, and a small village Neuvorwerk/Pogorzele near Przemków, a model settlement for forestry workers. One such issue is the image of Silesia as an area exposed to colonization and Germanization processes, especially in the Middle Ages and in the eighteenth century. Another is the Third Reich’s selective use of history and the architecture of the past in propaganda, which fed into the myth of German Silesia and the superiority of German achievements in the region. The impact of these concepts and personal relationships are evident in projects implemented later in the occupied territories
Defining Characteristics, Major Research Needs, and Research Themes
Get PDFThis article describes best known realized and unrealized projects of Reichsgau East Prussia, region not incorporated into Poland until 1945, which is also the case for Lower Silesia or Western Pomerania. However, it also differs from the other two historic regions in that it is now partially in Poland and partially in Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast. Jan Salm discusses main questions that arise in the case of this area and proposes new ideas for further research
Vernacularism, Lesser Poland’s Heimat, and Auxiliary Sciences in the Study of Architecture for the Third Reich
Get PDFThe article provides methodological suggestions for the study of architecture for the Third Reich in the General Government. However, it also offers an interpretation of the phenomenon. These suggestions brings together four different terms that are key for understanding the author’s investigations. These terms are: vernacularism, Lesser Poland’s Heimat, auxiliary sciences, and architecture for the Third Reich in relation to examples from Krakow and Lesser Poland. The article tackles the following issues: what does it mean that the Heimatstil and Heimatschutzstil, which happen to recur in the studies on the architecture of the Third Reich, are types of vernacular architecture? Did Lesser Poland’s Heimat ever exist? If so, were there attempts at creating and using indigenous regional architecture (the Heimatstil) in Nazi appropriation policy on the territory of conquered Lesser Poland
Selected Research Problems
Get PDFThis article offers a summary of up to now research of german projects for Kraków as capital city of the General Government. The status of this administrative region was notably peculiar. The area was never annexed to the Great German Reich. Unlike the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the General Government was never part of the German customs and monetary zone either. As such, it was considered a foreign territory. Out of all Polish territories which were either annexed to the Reich or occupied by it, the General Government experienced the most draconian colonial policies. Żanna Komar shows in what way those ideas, developed by Hans Frank as Generalouverneur were put into effect by german architects and which offices of local authorities were responsible for planning initiatives
Notes on tracing documents and tangible heritage testifying to the Germanization of Polish territory
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