<h4>"Sketch of a Middle-European Highway Network"</h4>
Published in "Raumforschung und Raumordnung" - the monthly journal of the Reich's Society for Spatial Science, and the prestige venue for exhibiting the Reich's plans for the "East" - this sketch shows the proposed extension of the <em>Reichsautobahn</em> network into Central and Eastern Europe. The network was to stretch to Saint Petersburg and Moscow, to the Black See, to Istanbul, and all throughout the Balkan Peninsula to Athens. The network was to facilitate the German expansion to the new Eastern Lebensraum, making the <em>Reichsautobahn</em> an active agent of colonization.
<em>Raumforschung und Raumordnung</em>, V 3/4, 1940, p. 163
1940
<h4>Highway of Leisure</h4>
The <em>Reichsautobahn</em> was conceived as much more than an artery of movement: although intended for the exclusive use of the automobiles, its character and the space it created was to embody everything that one could find on the regular road - from social, economic, cultural or recreational activities. Or what is even more important, all the functions that one's Heimat would offer.
"Reichsautobahn". Directed by Hartmut Bitomsky, 1986
1930-1940