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i had never heard that the Interstates were modelled on something from the Nazis. What I heard was that we learned, from the devastation that we had caused Germany through carpet bombing, that concentrating the population in centers was very dangerous. as socaldem says, the Cold War was on, and in the early days it wasn't so clear that the next engagement would be solely nuclear. So the Interstate system -- and the resulting growth of sub/exurbia -- was started, at least in part, in order to spread the population out so there were fewer target.
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