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Towards a Relational History of Spaces under National Socialism

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Heimat, Region, and Empire

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The transformation of ‘space’ into ‘political territory’ is one of the foundational acts of modern state formation. Associated techniques of mapping, surveying, canal building, road construction, and landscape management and transformation have not only been investigated in specialist sub-fields, such as the history of science or environmental history, but they are increasingly informing the writing of political histories, too.1 The National Socialist regime is no exception. Like all modern states, it acted in and through space. While this is widely acknowledged in the existing historiography, there is as yet no volume that systematically tackles the question of what, if anything, was specific to National Socialist approaches to political territory; and if there was such a thing, whether this specificity was national (i.e. a German peculiarity) or ideological (i.e. a fascist peculiarity), or both.

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    Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann (Professor of Modern History) (Professor of Modern History)

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    Maiken Umbach (Professor of Modern History) (Professor of Modern History)

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Umbach, M., Szejnmann, CC.W. (2012). Introduction. In: Szejnmann, CC.W., Umbach, M. (eds) Heimat, Region, and Empire. The Holocaust and Its Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-39111-6_1

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