Lebensraum : the entitlement of “legitimate” Germans to living space. Entfernung : the expulsion of “undesirables” to create empty space for German resettlement. During his thirteen years leading Germany, Hitler developed and made use of a number of powerful geostrategical concepts such as these in order to justify his imperialist expansion, exploitation, and genocide. As his twisted manifestation of spatial theory grew in Nazi ideology, it created a new and violent relationship between people and space in Germany and beyond.
With Hitler’s Geographies , editors Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca examine the variety of ways in which spatial theory evolved and was translated into real-world action under the Third Reich. They have gathered an outstanding collection by leading scholars, presenting key concepts and figures as well exploring the undeniable link between biopolitical power and spatial expansion and exclusion.
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“That the Nazi regime was an expansionist project has been well appreciated since the 1930s, but its protean spatial imaginings and practices have been neither satisfactorily conceptualized nor interrelated until now. Hitler's Geographies is a landmark collection that undertakes the challenging theoretical and empirical labor of reconstructing the spatialities of the Third Reich. It will be required reading for understanding the intersections of geopolitics, imperial ambitions, and settlement fantasies with the topographies of racialized screening, ghettoization, and mass murder.”
( A. Dirk Moses, European University Institute, Florence )
“Giaccaria and Minca have been in the vanguard of the intellectual project of integrated geohistory focusing on cultural issues for many years. With Hitler’s Geographies , they offer the first edited volume attempting to mark out this compelling theoretical territory in relation to a major twentieth-century phenomenon: Nazism. This book is an excellent conceptual collection for understanding and applying the notions of Lebensraum , geopolitics, biopolitics, and central place theory. It also provides valuable examples of key concepts from cultural geography, including the nuances of space versus place, cultural landscapes and their emotional burdens and legacies, and emotional distance and proximity in cinema. The theoretical and historiographical contributions of Hitler’s Geographies will be of great interest to scholars of the Third Reich, national socialism, the Holocaust, spatial theory, cultural theory, and various branches of geography.”
( Anne Kelly Knowles, University of Maine )
“In reworking theoretical and historical agendas about Nazism’s mobilizations of knowledge, nature, place , Hitler’s Geographies offers an important contribution to understanding the Third Reich for anyone concerned with culture, domination, environment, or memory.”
( James D. Sidaway, National University of Singapore )
“With Hitler’s Geographies , Giaccaria and Minca aim to highlight Nazism as a spatial project—one whose racial politics required thinking about space in a particular way and putting these ideas into practice. The editors do an excellent job of laying out this rationale. In particular, this book connects with and builds upon contemporary social theories that are prevalent in geography and other social sciences, making it a pertinent and intriguing utilization of social theory to address a key historic topic. A bold endeavor, Hitler’s Geographies will soon be the go-to volume for those interested in the spatiality of the biopolitics of Nazism.”
( Colin Flint, Utah State University )
About the Author
Paolo Giaccaria is assistant professor of political and economic geography at the University of Turin, in Italy. Claudio Minca is professor and head of cultural geography at Wageningen University, in the Netherlands.

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Giaccaria, Paolo; Minca, Claudio;

United States, United States of America

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类型: 图书

出版日期: 2016

出版社: The University of Chicago Press

The Nazi regime imagined, developed, executed, and justified its imperialist expansion and genocidal practices through the incorporation and elaboration of geographical concepts and spatial theories. Many of these concepts appeared in Mein Kampf, including Lebensraum and Groraum (the entitlement of "legitimate" Germans to "living space" and "greater space") and Entfernung (the "expulsion" of "undesirables" to create empty space in the East for German resettlement). This collection considers the many ways in which spatial theory evolved into practice under the Third Reich. It consists of eleven new and six classic essays on topics ranging from Nazi spatial imaginations to the role of geography and planning in shaping those imaginations to the geopolitical outcomes and the many manifestations of Hitler's "dark geographies," including the Final Solution and the implications of industrial extermination. In addition to presenting key concepts, thinkers, and theories, the collection explores the link between biopolitical power and social and spatial expansion and exclusion.
Contents 6
Introduction: Hitler’s Geographies, Nazi Spatialities / Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca 8
Spatial Cultural Histories of Hitlerism 24
1. For a Tentative Spatial Theory of the Third Reich / Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca 26
2. Holocaust Spaces / Dan Stone 52
Part I. Third Reich Geographies 70
Section 1. Biopolitics, Geopolitics, and Lebensraum 72
3. In Service of Empire: Geographers at Berlin’s University between Colonial Studies and Ostforschung (Eastern Research) / Jürgen Zimmerer 74
4. The East as Historical Imagination and the Germanization Policies of the Third Reich / Gerhard Wolf 100
5. Race contra Space: The Conflict between German Geopolitik and National Socialism / Mark Bassin 117
6. Back Breeding the Aurochs: The Heck Brothers, National Socialism, and Imagined Geographies for Non-Human Lebensraum / Clemens Driessen and Jamie Lorimer 145
Section 2. Spatial Planning and Geography in the Third Reich 166
7. National Socialism and the Politics of Calculation / Stuart Elden 168
8. Applied Geography and Area Research in Nazi Society: Central Place Theory and Planning, 1933–1945 / Mechtild Rössler 189
9. A Morality Tale of Two Location Theorists in Hitler’s Germany: Walter Christaller and August Lösch / Trevor J. Barnes 205
10. Social Engineering, National Demography, and Political Economy in Nazi Germany: Gottfried Feder and His New Town Concept / Joshua Hagen 225
Part II. Geographies of the Third Reich 248
Section 3. Spatialities of the Holocaust 250
11. Nazi Biopolitics and the Dark Geographies of the Selva / Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca 252
12. Geographies of Ghettoization: Absences, Presences, and Boundaries / Tim Cole 273
13. Spaces of Engagement and the Geographies of Obligation: Responses to the Holocaust / Michael Fleming 289
14. Hello Darkness: Envoi and Caveat / Andrew Charlesworth 306
Section 4. Microgeographies of Memory, Witnessing, and Representation 318
15. The Interruption of Witnessing: Relations of Distance and Proximity in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah / Richard Carter-White 320
16. A Mobile Holocaust? Rethinking Testimony with Cultural Geography / Simone Gigliotti 336
17. What Remains? Sites of Deportation in Contemporary European Daily Life: The Case of Drancy / Katherine Fleming 355
Acknowledgments 370
Contributor Biographies 372
Index 376

2025-10-27