Atlantropa: The $1 Trillion Dam to Drain the Mediterranean

Herman Sörgel, a German architect came up with probably the most insane plan in history: he wanted to quite literally drain the ocean! This would have been the biggest megaproject in the history of humanity! But why did he want to do it? And could his plan have worked?

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0:00 Atlantropa: The $1 Trillion Dam to Drain the Mediterranean
0:25 Lebensraum
1:55 Atlantropa
4:08 Sörgel’s Insane Plan
5:23 Problems & Critism

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Too cool, it would have been amazing.