Propaganda Voyages Praising Nazi Technology

What is it about?

This article describes three 'voyages of technology' used by Fritz Todt and Nazi engineers to spread their vision of the role of technology in a National Socialist society. These voyages occured in Austria and the Sudetenland in 1938 and on a Norwegian cruise in 1939. Another planned voyage through eastern Europe was canceled in February 1939, demonstating the limits the regime placed on Todt's 'technopolitical' propaganda. The voyages show how Nazi engineers sought both to persuade the public about the value of Nazi technology and to indoctrinate German engineers with their views.

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Why is it important?

These voyages capture the quintessential essence of the Nazi appraoch to technology. They demonstrate in microcosm the Nazi approach and the specific values that Fritz Todt and the Nazi engineers sought to inculcate -- a harmony of man, machine and nature --within the 'Volksgemeinschaft'.