The Arts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, Change

Published by Berghahn Books 2006

The Arts in Nazi Germany

Continuity, Conformity, Change

Edited by: Jonathan Huener and Francis R. Nicosia

Volume 3 in the series Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857457004

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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.

Author / Editor 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.

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.

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.

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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction The Arts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, Change Jonathan Huener and Francis R. Nicosia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One Anti-Semitism and the Arts in Nazi Ideology and Policy Alan E. Steinweis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter Two The Impact of American Popular Culture on German Youth Michael H. Kater Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Chapter Three The Legacy of Nazi Cinema: Triumph of the Will and Jew Süss Revisited Eric Rentschler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Chapter Four Music in the Third Reich: The Complex Task of “Germanization” Pamela M. Potter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Chapter Five A Command Performance? The Many Fac es of Literat ure under Nazism Frank Trommler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter Six The Art World in Nazi Germany: Choices, Rationalization, and Justice Jonathan Petropoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Appendixes
APPENDIX A Letter from Wilhelm Furtwängler to Joseph Goebbels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
APPENDIX B Law for the Establishment of a Provisional Chamber of Film Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
APPENDIX C The Reich Chamber of Culture Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
APPENDIX D First Decree for the Implementation of the Law for the Reich Chamber of Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
APPENDIX E Activities of the Cultural Association of German Jews [Jewish Cultural League] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
APPENDIX F The German Authorities and the Cultural Association of German Jews [Jewish Cultural League] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
APPENDIX G Ten Principles for the Creation of German Music Joseph Goebbels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
APPENDIX H From Hitler’s “Speech on Culture” (Kulturrede) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
APPENDIX I What Are People Reading? A Questionnaire in Berlin Book Stores Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 236
Keywords: History: World War II; Cultural Studies (General)

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Published: November 1, 2006
ISBN: 9780857457004