A German Engineer Planned to Drain the Mediterranean and Connect Africa and Europe – It Didn’t End Well

Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons In the years after World War I, one German architect and engineer proposed an extraordinary solution to Europe’s economic and political problems: partially drain the Mediterranean, generate massive amounts of hydroelectric power, and create vast new areas of farmland connecting Europe and Africa. Herman Sörgel unveiled the concept in 1929 in […] The post A German…