Hitler's autobahn was more than just the pet project of an
infrastructure-friendly dictator. It was supposed to revolutionize
the transportation sector in Germany, connect the metropoles with
the countryside, and encourage motorization. The propaganda
machinery of the Third Reich turned the autobahn into a hyped-up
icon of the dictatorship. One of the claims was that the roads
would reconcile nature and technology. Rather than destroying the
environment, they would embellish the landscape. Many historians
have taken this claim at face value and concluded that the Nazi
regime harbored an inbred love of nature. In this book, the author
argues that such conclusions are misleading. Based on rich archival
research, the book provides the first scholarly account of the
landscape of the autobahn.
Thomas Zeller is an associate professor at the University of
Maryland, College Park, where he teaches the history of technology,
environmental history, and science and technology studies. He is
the author of Strasse, Bahn, Panorama (2002) and has co-edited the
volumes How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation
in the Third Reich (2005), Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes
and Environmental History (2005), The World Beyond the Windshield:
Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe (2008) and
Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North
America (2008). His current research project, consuming Landscapes,
has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the John W.
Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, and the Program in Garden
and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.
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