The title of this blog post is one of the vocabulary words we learned in German 491 this semester.
It is a compound word, constructed using ‘expansion’ and ‘süchtig’, the latter meaning ‘addicted’. The word was used to describe Adolf Hitler, and after reading Chapter 5 of Berlin at War, I now completely understand why.
It strikes me as unsurprising that Hitler would have wanted an expansive, enormous megatropolis built in his honor to serve as the world’s new capital, once he had conquered enough of it to declare himself king. Yet, I can’t stop making comparisons to Disney’s EPCoT, in terms of the design. I’m not so sure Hitler cared too much for any of the potential new citizens of his enormous ode to himself, though. One of the two was dreamed up as a solution to the problems of the modern city, in order to increase the convenience to the people. The other was more a giant playground for one.
~Sam
You are going to be invaluable on this trip, Sam!!
Why, thank you! 🙂