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This collection brings together international scholars pursuing cutting-edge research on spatial identities under National Socialism. They demonstrate that the spatial identities of the Third Reich can be approached as a history of interrelated dimensions; Heimat, region and Empire were constantly reconstructed through this interrelationship.

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List of Maps and Images Preface Notes on Contributors Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Introduction; C-C.W.Szejnmann & M.Umbach PART I: RE-MOULDING REGIONAL IDENTITIES Region and National Socialist Ideology. Reflections on Contained Plurality; M.Steber Milieus, Political Culture and Regional Traditions in Lower Saxony in Comparative Perspective; D.Schmiechen-Ackermann Grenzlandschicksal: Historical Narratives of Regional Identity and National Duty in Gau Oberrhein 1940-44; T.Williams National Socialism and Hierarchichal Regionalism: The German Minorities in Interwar Poland; W.Chu PART II: TRANSFORMING SPACES Germanization of the Warthegau: Germans, Jews, and Poles and the Making of a ´German´ Gau; C.Epstein ´A Sense of Heimat Opened up During the War´. German Soldiers and Heimat Abroad; C-C.W.Szejnmann ´Here too lies our Lebensraum´: Colonial Space as German Space; W.Sandler Conceptions, Competences and Limits of the German Regional Planning during the ´Four Year Plan´, 1936 to 1940; O.Werner PART III: RE-MAKING ETHNICITIES Race, Regional Identity and Volksgemeinschaft. Naturalization of Ethnic German Resettlers in World War II by the Einwandererzentralstelle/Central Immigration Office of the SS; A.Strippel The Reich Propaganda offices and the Political Mentoring of Ethnic German Re-settlers; D.Muhlenfeld Suitable Germans - Enforced Assimilation Policies in Danzig Westprussia, 1939-1945; G.Wolf On the Margins of Volksgemeinschaft: Criteria for Belonging to the Volk in the Nazi Germanization Policy in the Annexed Territories and Beyond, 1939-1945; A.Stiller Commentary: Empire, Ideology, and the East: Thoughts on Nazism´s Spatial Imaginary; G.Eley Index

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"A valuable, densely packed and diverse volume that addresses the role of spatial factors in attempts at making concrete visions of the nation." - Michael Carter-Sinclair, King´s College London, UK

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