The Architecture of Oppression: The SS,

This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labor concentration camp system. Through an analysis of such major Nazi building projects as the Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds and the rebuilding of Berlin, Paul Jaskot ties together the development of the German building economy, state architectural goals and the rise of the SS as a political and economic force. As a result, The Architecture of Opression contributes to our understanding of the conjunction of culture and politics in the Nazi period as well as the agency of architects and SS administrators in enabling this process.

Paul B. Jaskot is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at DePaul University in Chicago

List of illustrations

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Abbreviations

xiii

Introduction: The Architectural Policy of the SS

1

(10)

The Interest of the SS in the Monumental Building Economy

11

(36)

The development of the SS and the concentration camp system

13

(2)

The German building economy, 1933--8

15

(4)

SS concentration camps and the formation of DEST

19

(6)

DEST and the monumental building economy during the war

25

(9)

Productivity and punishment at the DEST stone quarries

34

(13)

The Party Rally Grounds at Nuremberg: SS Economic Goals and National Socialist Architectural Policy

47

(33)

The function of the Party Rally Grounds at Nuremberg

50

(3)

Creation of the Zweckverband Reichsparteitag Nurnberg

53

(3)

Building at Nuremberg, 1935--9

56

(5)

Building at Nuremberg during the war

61

(7)

SS economic goals and the Party Rally Grounds

68

(12)

The Rebuilding of Berlin: The Interdependence of the GBI and the SS

80

(34)

The function of National Socialist building in Berlin

82

(3)

The formation of the GBI

85

(3)

The redesign of Berlin, 1937--9

88

(6)

Building in Berlin during the war

94

(9)

SS economic concerns and Speer's plans for Berlin

103

(5)

The Soldiers' Hall and KL Flossenburg

108

(6)

The Political Function of SS Architecture

114

(26)

The function of architecture for the SS

117

(9)

Building at KL Flossenburg

126

(6)

Building at KL Mauthausen

132

(8)

Conclusion

140

(8)

Notes

148

(35)

Bibliography

183

(12)

Index

195

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The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy

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