The Arts in Nazi Germany

Continuity, Conformity, Change
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84545-209-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 433 g

Reihe: Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huener, Jonathan

Nicosia, Francis R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Huener, Jonathan
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.

Nicosia, Francis R.
Francis R. Nicosia is the Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. He has written on German Zionism and German Middle East policy during the Weimar and Nazi periods. He is author of The Third Reich and the Palestine Question, and co-author of The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust.

Francis R. Nicosia is the Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. He has written on German Zionism and German Middle East policy during the Weimar and Nazi periods. He is author of The Third Reich and the Palestine Question, and co-author of The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust.