ABSTRACT
At first sight the brutal Nazi occupation and spatial re-ordering of Poland between 1939 and 1944 would appear to be the complete antithesis of the garden city tradition with its characteristic emphasis on co-operative and democratic reformism. Yet, as this chapter will show, the Nazi planners were, in reality, applying elements taken from the conceptual repertoire of the garden city. Over many years these elements had been technicalized and divorced from their original reformist mission. Ultimately, under the Nazis, they were developed into a new practice of comprehensively planned territorial re-organization, known as Raumplanung (territorial planning), based on ideal concepts of Raumordnung (territorial order). This was apphed in those parts of Poland which were directly incorporated into Hitler's Reich.
