Atlantropa
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Atlantopaque - Utopian vision of the German architect Herman Sörgel, who in the first half of the twentieth century was going to build a new continent inhabited by Europeans.
Sörgel wanted to divide the Strait of Gibraltar in order to lower the Mediterranean Sea (and even dry it if necessary) and to colonize vast areas of Africa economically and economically. One of the assumptions of Atlantis was the conversion of huge Sahara slopes into farmland. The realization of this utopia was to solve the economic, energy, political and demographic problems of Europe.
The German architect proposed the drying of the Mediterranean after the First World War, but the project did not gain support in Nazi Germany. After the Second World War, Sörgel created a network of project offices. They functioned until his death in 1952. The creator of the utopian idea had little knowledge of the natural sciences that would allow him to predict the catastrophic consequences for the whole world of drying up the sea and building a dam in Gibraltar.
In 2005, a documentary about Herman Sörgel's utopian conception of Atlantopa was made. The Dream of a New Continent.
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