ABSTRACT
This chapter applies transnational insights regarding urban and regional space to what appears at first sight to be a diametrically opposed context: Nazi German exterminatory policies of supranational expansion across central and Eastern Europe. Further, instances of what Cohen intriguingly refers to as an open, uncontrolled 'cross-pollination' certainly occurred in Nazi urban contexts, even if only sporadically: the Jewish and then Polish uprisings in Warsaw, for example, certainly impacted the Nazis' implementation of severe urban planning changes for the Polish capital. As David Harvey has noted, 'the most fanatical localism and nationalism' were the successful products of intensely unifying visual-spatial displays under Nazism. Concurrent with the air war's unavoidable impact and its creation of tabula rasa possibilities, there occurred within Nazi spatial and racial planning a disruption of the traditional equation between Western civilization and the human-cum-urban ideal form. This attempted urban re-formation was also a racial de-formation.
