LEADER 03956ctm a2200433Ma 4500001 81112 005 20240621153006.0 008 030312s1993 xx rb 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocm35264100 035 81112 043 e-gx--- 049 LHMA 040 JHE |beng |erda |cJHE |dOCL |dOCLCQ |dLHM 090 DD253.6 |b.J36 1993 100 1 Jaskot, Paul B., |d1963- 245 14 The architectural policy of the SS, 1936-1945 / |cPaul Bourquin Jasko. 264 0 |cc1993. 300 ix, 292 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--Northwestern University, 1993. 504 Includes bibliographical references: (pages 281-292). 520 The dissertation analyses the production of building materials for the monumental architectural projects of National Socialist Germany in the forced-labor concentration camps under the control of the SS (Schutzstaffel). Three historical components are examined throughout the inquiry: the architectural policy of the Party and state, the political goals enacted through the concentration camps, and the SS economic enterprises dependent on the forced labor in the camps. I argue that the SS used economic enterprises to link its steadily increasing political authority to the privileged position of architectural policy in National Socialist Germany. The SS reorganized the concentration camp system after 1936 around the production of building materials. My study begins with this reorganization and analyses Heinrich Himmler's interest (carried out by his administrative chief, Oswald Pohl) in making the camps economically powerful. Pohl's administration of the German Earth and Stone Works (Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke (DEST)) proved most successful in the early years of World War II because of the influx of political prisoners and opportunities for peacetime commissions. The expansion of economic policy is exemplified by those camps whose output was directed towards stone contracts for the Reich Party Rally Grounds complex in Nuremberg. With Nuremberg, the SS attempted to make forced labor indispensable to architectural policy. Furthermore, an investigation of relations between the SS and Albert Speer's office of the Inspector General of Building for the Reich Capital Berlin indicates how the SS took advantage of architectural policy and, conversely, how architects like Speer called on the SS in order to carry out their plans. The dissertation also covers what ideological and political function architecture served for the SS itself. As camp construction in particular depended on forced labor, an analysis of the building process at KL Flossenburg and KL Mauthausen testifies to the direct connection at the camp site between punitive policy and architecture. Understanding the relationship between cultural and punitive policy contributes to an analysis of the political function of architecture and the development of concentration camps in National Socialist Germany. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2003. |e22 cm. 539 s |b1996 |dmiu |en |gr 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 610 20 Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. |bSS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt. 650 0 National socialism and architecture. 650 0 Forced labor |zGermany. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xConcentration camps |zGermany. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=746293141&sid=33&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |uhttp://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib81112/9415750.pdf |zHosted by USHMM. 994 X0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hDD253.6 |i.J36 1993 852 |bwww 852 |bebook