I know its hard to believe, but not EVERY single thing the Germans did between the years of 1933-1945 was stupid or evil.
The Nazis had many incredible ideas that didn’t have anything to do with the final solution. should we say Math or rocket science should not used because an evil person thought it up.
I don’t buy this being a Nazi plan; even the article makes it plain that Christaller was a Social Democrat (who are just as against Israel as anyone else in Europe these days, BTW). A party whose members liked to sing „Heute Deutschland, Morgen Die Welt“ would not have included the (to them) purported homeland of die Juden having the Jews alive and dwelling in it.
Sometimes a good idea is still a good idea. I am not sure I understand the desire to eradicate all that might have come from an evil society just because it came from an evil society. On that basis we should never eat German, Italian, or Japanese food. Nor should we ever drive cars produced by said societies
Without Hitler, Israel would not exist today.
interesting O.F.....As a young man I was shocked that many of the revered church songs we sang were originally drinking songs with bawdy lyrics. The church adopted them and gave them new words. So a plan can be a good plan even though some one we don’t like came up with it...
Once the plans go up, who cares where it gets built, that’s not his department.
Men plan, God laughs.
The evil here is not this theory, but the fact that the Nazis had created an "empty" region by transporting out all the Poles, Jews and others. From what I can tell this man had nothing to do with implementing the Nazi "lebensraum" concept.
One cultural element that has always served Judaism well is the belief that nobody has a monopoly on good ideas, that a good idea is just as good if it comes from a hated enemy as it is from a close friend.
There could also have been a deliberate use of good ideas by bad people for good purposes to help the Jewish people.
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IMO the title is quite a stretch. Christaller's Central Place Theory predates the Nazis, isn't accepted by everyone, and is more an academic explanation of urban development than a concrete plan of development. And which is certainly relevant to development of an economic region from scratch. I don't think calling it a Nazi theory.
Just what he did working for Himmler planning a new Germanic Poland without Poles is a different issue, certainly guided by his theories.
Doesn’t sound too different from the Northwest Act development of State Counties and Townships.