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The Germans and the Vikings - Hitler's Norwegian fantasy


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The year is 1940. The German army occupies Norway and begins construction of superhighways, a polar railroad and a glistening new German city in northern Norway. The Nazi party encourages German soldiers and Norwegian women to produce babies - all to create Hitler's vision of a super race of German/Norwegian Vikings. These master plans to rule the expected German empire were largely unknown until architecture professor and historian, Despina Stratigakos unearthed them from numerous public and private archives. Join Ernest Granson as Professor Stratigakos discusses her book - Hitler and the North: How Nazi Architects and Planners in Occupied Norway Envisioned a Nordic Empire.

 

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