Fellow Tribesmen : : The Image of Native Americans, National Identity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany / / Frank Usbeck.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Usbeck, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in German History ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; Chapter 1 THE IMAGE OF INDIANS IN GERMAN ROMANTICISM AND EMERGING NATIONALISM --; Chapter 2 NATION-FORMATION, NATIONAL IDENTITY, AND NATIONALISM --; Chapter 3 RELATIVES, ALLIES, OR SUBJECTS? Applications of Nazi Ideology through Indian Imagery in Popular Media and Academia --; CONCLUSION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782386551; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782386551?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Frank Usbeck.

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. This book explores the evolution of German national identity and its relationship with the ideas and cultural practices around “Indianthusiasm.” Pervasive and adaptable, imagery of Native Americans was appropriated by Nazi propaganda and merged with exceptionalist notions of German tribalism, oxymoronically promoting the Nazis’ racial ideology. This book combines cultural and intellectual history to scrutinize the motifs of Native American imagery in German literature, media, and scholarship, and analyzes how these motifs facilitated the propaganda effort to nurture national pride, racial thought, militarism, and hatred against the Allied powers among the German populace.