Reich Office for Spatial Planning

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The Reich Office for Spatial Planning was a Nazi-era governmental body responsible for coordinating and implementing large-scale territorial, urban, and demographic planning in line with the regime’s ideological and expansionist goals.

Aliases (1)
  • Adolf Hitler’s building program ×1

Statements (47)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi institution
government agency
activeDuring World War II
appliedTo border region planning
infrastructure planning
rural settlement planning
urban development
characteristic centralized planning authority
coordination with other Nazi agencies
ideologically driven planning
integration of racial policy into spatial planning
cooperatedWith Reich Commissariats in occupied territories
Reich Ministry of Economics
Reich Ministry of the Interior
SS
country Nazi Germany
dissolvedAfter defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945
field demographic planning
regional planning
spatial planning
urban planning
goal coordination of large-scale territorial planning
implementation of Nazi ideological planning objectives
preparation of territories for colonization by ethnic Germans
restructuring of settlement patterns
support of Germanization policies
ideology German expansionism
Lebensraum
Nazism
antisemitism
racism
involvedIn coordination of regional development plans
implementation of Lebensraum policies in the East
planning for occupied Eastern Europe
preparation of long-term settlement plans
moralAssessment complicit in crimes of the Nazi regime
instrument of racial and expansionist policy
operatedIn Germany
occupied territories
partOf government of Nazi Germany
status defunct
subordinateTo Reich government
timePeriod Nazi era
usedFor integration of economic and spatial plans
planning of forced resettlement
planning of population transfers
support of ethnic cleansing policies

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Marble Gallery ("Adolf Hitler’s building program")
associatedWith
Ministry of the Interior of Nazi Germany
subordinateUnit

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