SIEDLUNG by Erik van der Weijde

Roma Publications, 2008, First edition, 256 pp., 6 1/2" X 9", Hardcover As new (still in publisher's shrink wrap) Van der Weijdes photographic project documents over 220 houses built in Germany between 1933 and 1945 in order to eventually provide a house for every working-class NSDAP member. In turn this Siedlungpolitiek was both a powerful Nazi propaganda tool and a way to provide living space to loyal members. Most of these houses still exist, however unless one knows their full history they retain an unassuming normalcy.