Cryptic Concrete : A Subterranean Journey into Cold War Germany.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Chapter One Of Blood and Soil -- The Death of German Geopolitics -- West Germany and the Bomb -- Towards a Cold War Biopolitics -- The Bunker and the Camp -- Approach and Structure -- Endnotes -- Chapter Two Lebensraum and Its Underside -- In Defence of the Earth -- The Rise of German Geopolitics -- Life and Death in the German Geopolitical Tradition -- From Abstraction to Materialisation -- Complementary Archetypes -- Autoimmunity -- Endnotes -- Chapter Three Return to the Soil -- Jumping the Big Pond -- The Rebirth of German Geopolitics -- The Contours of a New German Geopolitics -- Return to the Soil -- Beyond the Taboo -- Endnotes -- Chapter Four Nuclear Living Space -- Überlebensraum -- Civil Defence and the Return of the Bunker -- From Camp to Bunker -- Overlaps and Inversions -- Opening -- Endnotes -- Chapter Five Spaces of Extermination -- Places of Forgetting -- Sharing the Bomb -- The Architecture of Missile Storage -- Raum Ohne Volk -- Razor Wire and its Discontents -- Endnotes -- Chapter Six Enter the Void -- Nuclear Play -- Fallex 66 -- A War Game and Its Reception -- Subterranean Play -- Self-Annihilation -- The Death Drive of German Geopolitics -- Endnotes -- Chapter Seven Conclusion -- The Nuclear Present -- Ruin Value -- Endnotes -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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