The Arts in Nazi Germany : : Continuity, Conformity, Change /

The Arts in Nazi Germany : : Continuity, Conformity, Change / / ed. by Francis R. Nicosia, Jonathan Huener.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Goebbels, Joseph,
Huener, Jonathan,
Kater, Michael H.,
Nicosia, Francis R.,
Petropoulos, Jonathan,
Potter, Pamela M.,
Rentschler, Eric,
Steinweis, Alan E.,
Trommler, Frank,
HerausgeberIn:
Huener, Jonathan,
Nicosia, Francis R.,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction The Arts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, Change
  • Chapter One Anti-Semitism and the Arts in Nazi Ideology and Policy
  • Chapter Two The Impact of American Popular Culture on German Youth
  • Chapter Three The Legacy of Nazi Cinema: Triumph of the Will and Jew Süss Revisited
  • Chapter Four Music in the Third Reich: The Complex Task of “Germanization”
  • Chapter Five A Command Performance? The Many Fac es of Literat ure under Nazism
  • Chapter Six The Art World in Nazi Germany: Choices, Rationalization, and Justice
  • Appendixes
  • APPENDIX A Letter from Wilhelm Furtwängler to Joseph Goebbels
  • APPENDIX B Law for the Establishment of a Provisional Chamber of Film
  • APPENDIX C The Reich Chamber of Culture Law
  • APPENDIX D First Decree for the Implementation of the Law for the Reich Chamber of Culture
  • APPENDIX E Activities of the Cultural Association of German Jews [Jewish Cultural League]
  • APPENDIX F The German Authorities and the Cultural Association of German Jews [Jewish Cultural League]
  • APPENDIX G Ten Principles for the Creation of German Music
  • APPENDIX H From Hitler’s “Speech on Culture” (Kulturrede)
  • APPENDIX I What Are People Reading? A Questionnaire in Berlin Book Stores
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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