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(2016) Nazi Germany and southern Europe, 1933–45, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Tourism as networking for a pan-fascist mobilization before the second world war
Mário Matos
pp. 38-51
This technomorphic imagery and discourse anticipate what the Nazis themselves later called Gleichschaltung, a term that was borrowed from the technological domain, namely from electronics, and meant the 'synchronization" of all public and private spheres of society. In fact, the National Socialists' concept of a "total mobilization" was intended, as announced by Jünger, to go far beyond the strictly military field, with a view to preparing all Germans in their everyday lives for a supposedly legitimate conquer of Lebensraum ("living space") by the Aryan "master race". Based upon Friedrich Ratzel's abstruse geopolitical theory from before the First World War, this collective demand for "land and territory (colonies) for the sustenance of [their] people, and settlement of [their] surplus population"2 had already been publicly propagated long before the Nazi rose to power, not only in the foundational programme of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) but also in Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, as well as — in a fictional mode — in Hans Grimm's very popular novel Volk ohne Raum (People without Space) from 1926.
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Matos, M. (2016)., Tourism as networking for a pan-fascist mobilization before the second world war, in F. Clara & C. Ninhos (eds.), Nazi Germany and southern Europe, 1933–45, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 38-51.
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