Obsesja porządku
An Order Obsession

German Architects’ Plans in Occupied Poland 1939–1945

Author(s): Niels Gutschow, Małgorzata Słabicka-Turpeinen, Aleksandra Paradowska, Annika Wienert
Subject(s): History, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: World War II; German occupation; Third Reich architecture; urban planning; occupation policy
Summary/Abstract: The author explores the activities of German spatial and urban planners, architects and interior designers as well as their “order obsession”, which was to be used in the Germanisation of the newly subjugated territories. He provides numerous examples of projects and realisations which have not been discussed before in the subject literature. He analyses the moral aspects of this ordering work and the active engagement in occupation policy and the Holocaust of those implementing it. He follows the fates of particular specialists during and after the war.

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