Nazi Volksgemeinschaft Technology

Gottfried Feder, Fritz Todt, and the Plassenburg Spirit
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-32055-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 309 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 543 g

This book traces how Gottfried Feder and Fritz Todt made technology essential to the Nazi ‘world view’. They groomed engineers with a racist technical ideology that prepared them to later supervise slave labor and the Holocaust. Their concepts evolved from völkisch technocracy to an idealized harmony of man, machine and nature, and were eclipsed by Albert Speer’s total war. Partially due to willing ‘self-coordination’ from engineers, they gained political control over the engineering profession. Destined to be pillars of the Volksgemeinschaft, engineers were indoctrinated with Nazi principles of Aryan superiority at the Reich School of Technology, the Plassenburg. Nazi propaganda announced a bright future through technology, furthering a sense of normalcy in Germany, despite the ruthless exclusion of those unwanted.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guse, John C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Gottfried Feder and V Technocracy.- 3. The Militant League of German Architects and Engineers.- 4. Feder to Todt: Limited of Engineers, 1933-1934.- 5. Gottfried Feder and Settlement: New Cities for The 6. The Autobahn: Technology, Nature, and Art.- 7. Fritz Todt and The Reordering of German Technology, 1935-1937.- 8. Educating Engineers: The Plassenburg School and 9. The Nazi “Voyages of Technology”.- 10. Fritz Todt, War Minister, 1939-1943.- 11. Fritz Todt’s “Speaker System”.- 12. Albert Speer and the End of “German Technology“.- 13. Technology for Pleasure And Death.- 14.  Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

John C. Guse studied at universities in Wisconsin, Nebraska, and at Bonn, Germany. He was a Director at the American School of Paris and inspecteur délégué for the French International Baccalaureat. His publications concern Fritz Todt, propaganda for Nazi technology, and a ‘forgotten’ internment camp in France.