Overview

Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945. Hitler and his followers believed that art and culture were expressions of race, and that “Aryans” alone were capable of creating true art and preserving true German culture. This volume’s essays explore these and other aspects of the arts and cultural life under National Socialism, and are authored by some of the most respected authorities in the field: Alan Steinweis, Michael Kater, Eric Rentschler, Pamela Potter, Frank Trommler, and Jonathan Petropoulos. The result is a volume that offers students and interested readers a brief but focused introduction to this important aspect of the history of Nazi Germany.

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Author:   Jonathan Huener ,  Francis R. Nicosia
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9781845452094

ISBN 10:   1845452097
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   01 November 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: The Arts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, Change Jonathan Huener and Francis R. Nicosia Chapter 1. Anti-Semitism and the Arts in Nazi Ideology and Policy Alan E. Steinweis Chapter 2. The Impact of American Popular Culture on German Youth Michael H. Kater Chapter 3. The Legacy of Nazi Cinema: Triumph of the Will and Jew Süss Revisited Eric Rentschler Chapter 4. Music in the Third Reich: The Complex Task of “Germanization” Pamela M. Potter Chapter 5. A Command Performance? The Many Faces of Literature under Nazism Frank Trommler Chapter 6. The Art World in Nazi Germany: Choices, Rationalization, and Justice Jonathan Petropoulos Appendixes Appendix I: Letter from Wilhelm Furtwängler to Joseph Goebbels - 12 April 1933 Appendix II: Law for the Establishment of a Provisional Chamber of Film - 14 July 1933 Appendix III: The Reich Chamber of Culture Law - 22 September 1933 Appendix IV: First Decree for the Implementation of the Law for the Reich Chamber of Culture - 1 November 1933 Appendix V: Activities of the Cultural Association of German Jews (Jewish Cultural League) - April 1934 Appendix VI: The German Authorities and the Cultural Association of German Jews (Jewish Cultural League) - 19 June 1934 Appendix VII: Ten Principles for the Creation of German Music by Joseph Goebbels - 28 May 1938 Appendix IX: From Hitler’s “Speech on Culture” (Kulturrede) at the Nuremberg Party Congress - September 1938 Appendix X: What Are People Reading? A Questionnaire in Berlin Book Stores - December 1940 Contributors Selected Bibliography Index

Reviews

This slim volume accomplishes a remarkable feat. It provides concise, beautifully crafted essays that provide access to the best scholarship in Nazi cultural history even as they represent the current state of research by leading experts... Supplemented with illustrations and primary sources, this work would make an ideal addition to undergraduate and graduate courses on the Third Reich, sure to provoke lively discussion and further study on the arts in Nazi Germany. . German Studies Review Huener and Nicosia's collection provides exceptional insight not only into the murky world of National Socialist cultural practices, but also into some uncomfortable areas which survived beyond 1945. . European History Quarterly

Author Information

Jonathan Huener is Associate Professor of History at the University of Vermont. He has written on aspects of memorial culture in postwar Germany and Poland, is author of Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945-1979, and co-editor, with Francis R. Nicosia, of Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Origins, Practices, Legacies and Business and Industry in Nazi Germany.

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