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Nazi Volksgemeinschaft Technology: Gottfrried Feder, Fritz Todt, And The Plassenburg Spirit

By John C. Guse

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2023
ISBN
3031320557, 9783031320552, 9783031320583, 9783031320569
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8240311 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
319\319
Topic
History
Time added
2023-10-27 16:14:53
History of Germany and Central Europe; History of

Description

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.

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