Tourism in Nazi‐occupied Poland: Baedeker's<i>Generalgouvernement</i>

Lane, Nicholas

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“…1937(Weigel ca. -1939; see also , Lane 1997;Koshar 1998b). Another guidebook, first published in the 1920s, received a new introduction in 1936, which reminded Germans not to visit Rothenburg in order to romanticize about the past, ''but rather to be invigorated from the strength and ability of our ancestors.''…”

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The Most German of Towns: Creating an Ideal Nazi Community in Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Hagen

2004

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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During the Nazi period, Rothenburg ob der Tauber served to exemplify Nazi ideas of landscape and nation. This article focuses on the manner and circumstances under which Rothenburg was manipulated to advance what Nazi ideology held to be the fundamental characteristics of the German nation and its history. The first section of this article examines attempts to politicize and reorganize tourism in Rothenburg led by Kraft durch Freude (KdF). The KdF aimed to promote a sense of national belonging, demonstrate the regime's commitment to improving the material, physical, and spiritual well-being of the German nation, and project a positive image of the regime in Germany and abroad. The second section moves beyond KdF to explore efforts to transform the town into a type of Nazi utopia through more stringent preservationist and commercial policies designed to eliminate non-German elements from the town's built environment, while reinforcing the themes of cleanliness, health, and traditional ways of life and consumption. Finally, anti-Semitism emerged as an important factor within this broader campaign to restructure the town in accordance with Nazi ideology. The aim is to see Rothenburg not merely as a symbolic representation of Nazi beliefs, but also to see local residents and the town itself as an active force in reshaping and framing these beliefs into a form that could be seen, experienced, and consumed.

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The Most German of Towns: Creating an Ideal Nazi Community in Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Hagen

2004

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…36 On 12 November all Jews in areas of Poland annexed by the Nazis are forced into the "Generalgouvernment", and forced to wear the yellow star (like in Nazi Germany later in September 1941) on the 28th of November (McDonough & Cochrane, 2008). 37 The 1943 editition of the Baedecker guidebook to the Generalgouvernment has no mention or any trace of the mass extermination programs beng executed at the same time it was research and edited (principly for the railway tourist), no reference to living Jews(the mostly already in Ghettos), and hardly any trace of a Jewish past in the descriptions of cultural heritage and architecture (Lane, 1997).…”

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The Planning and Architecture of Deportation, Imprisonment and Death - Reflections on the Ethical Implications of the Holocaust for Built and Natural Environment Disciplines

Kötter¹,

Preston²

2018

IJHSS

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This paper is based on an exchange and dialogue between two academics on how the legacy of the Nazi period is relevant for built environment, planning and human geography disciplines.We argue that we should be reflecting on the conduct and utility of spatial and urban planning and design in the Nazi period from the perspective of professional ethics, not just as a historical reflection and remembrance but also to inform current and future generations of professionals.

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Tourism at War

Semmens¹

2005

Seeing Hitler's Germany

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Tourism in Nazi‐occupied Poland: Baedeker'sGeneralgouvernement

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The Most German of Towns: Creating an Ideal Nazi Community in Rothenburg ob der Tauber

The Most German of Towns: Creating an Ideal Nazi Community in Rothenburg ob der Tauber

The Planning and Architecture of Deportation, Imprisonment and Death - Reflections on the Ethical Implications of the Holocaust for Built and Natural Environment Disciplines

Tourism at War

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