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Did the Nazis ever plan to build any large cities on their desired Lebensraum?

Did the Nazis ever plan to build any large cities on their desired Lebensraum? I know that Lebensraum for the Nazis was primarily for agriculture and autarky, but was there ever a desire among the Nazis to create new urban centers for the German population in the occupied territories? Futurist110 (talk) 06:06, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

We have Urban planning in Nazi Germany and Generalplan Ost, though there's a limited amount of detail there on new cities. The long-term Nazi plans for rebuilding Berlin were creepy enough... AnonMoos (talk) 17:51, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

There was also the plan to destroy and replace Warsaw. Iapetus (talk) 19:35, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

There was Nordstern (city) in Norway. --Error (talk) 02:23, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

One thing they probably didn't plan on was having to rebuild Dresden. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:44, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

For the rebuilding plans for Berlin that AnonMoos mentions, see Germania (city). List of Nazi construction has some information and links to other articles, like Führer city, which has a list of cities that Hitler planned to rebuild, containing cities like Danzig, Memel, Posen and Prague outside Germany in their new Lebensraum, in addition to Warsaw and Nordstern mentioned above. I believe that Hitler spent much of his time, especially when the war wasn't going well, in drawing up such increasingly fanciful architectural plans.John Z (talk) 11:13, 13 January 2019 (UTC)