Einleitung: Digital Humanities und die ‚Messbarkeit‘ des NS-Regimes

Abstract

During their occupation of Eastern Europe, the National Socialists established detailed assessments of, and plans for, the whole region. This paper builds on the current state of research on the stakeholders, the practices and the techniques deployed in regional, urban and architectural planning, and explores the scope offered by combining the methodological perspectives of the history of architecture and the Digital Humanities to create a digital history of architecture. The development, use and theory of digital methods and processes offer new approaches to the assessment of the regional and urban architecture that was planned and implemented by the Nazi regime in Eastern Europe. They enable the use of mathematical measurements of specific features that support far more informative statements than are possible simply through qualitative observation. The work discusses the academic value that this adds to the examination of spatial definition, urban construction and architectural practices, and the need to combine this analysis with qualitative ap-