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developed elaborate railway systems that facilitated
mobilization of manpower resources. Encirclement is a highly
visual image that had great novelty for this newly industrialized
nation. In the l930s, by contrast, the German obsession was
with lebensraum . This is not a visual concern, at all. It is a
claustrophobia, engendered by the radio implosion and
compression of space. The German defeat had thrust them
back from visual obsession into brooding upon the resonating
Africa within. The tribal past has never ceased to be a reality
for the German psyche.
It was the ready access of the German and middle-
European world to the rich nonvisual resources of auditory and
tactile form that enabled them to enrich the world of music and
dance and sculpture. Above all their tribal mode gave them
easy access to the new nonvisual world of subatomic physics,