Architecture and the destruction of the European Jews
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Architecture and the destruction of the European Jews
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318/0223
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]04298k
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]University of Alberta Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2000
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp145-164
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]0888643373
NotesArticle from the book 'The Holocaust's ghost' pp145-164
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Examines the little-explored relationship between Nazi architecture and Nazi anti-Semitism. From Alfred Rosenberg's employment of Paul Schulze-Naumberg to oppose "un-German" modern archtitects like Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Albert Speer's crucial role in pursuing an anti-Semitic policy in his plans for a greater Berlin, we see how Nazi architecture and its practitioners eventually came to design Auschwitz as a site for mass murder. Lesson: "We cannot separate political history from art history."