Culture in Nazi Germany /Michael H. Kater.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 453 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title p age; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface; CHAPTER ONE Deconstructing Modernism; A PURGE OF THE WEIMAR ERA; NEW NAZI CONTROLS; THE QUARREL OVER EXPRESSIONISM; EXHIBITIONS OF DEGENERATE ART AND MUSIC; CHAPTER TWO Pre-War Nazi Culture; THE PROPAGANDA MINISTRY AND CULTURE; LITERATURE; THE PRESS AND RADIO; FILM AND STAGE; MUSIC; THE VISUAL ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE; AN INTERIM ACCOUNTING; CHAPTER THREE Jews in the Nazi Cultural Establishment; ANTI-JEWISH MEASURES; THE JEWISH CULTURE LEAGUE ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE NAZI ARTSHUMAN TRAGEDIES; CHAPTER FOUR War and Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Culture; MOVIES FOR GUIDANCE, INDOCTRINATION, AND DISTRACTION; THE COMMUNICATION ARTS: RADIO, PRESS, AND NEWSREELS; MUSIC AND THEATER IN THE SERVICE OF WAR; BOOK AND SWORD; ART AND ARCHITECTURE; CULTURE TO THE FRONTS; CHAPTER FIVE Artist Émigrés; POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIERS; FALSE REFUGEES?; THE CASE OF THOMAS MANN; CHAPTER SIX Transfer Beyond Zero Hour, May 1945; THE DEMISE OF CULTURE; BEYOND ZERO HOUR; CONJURED VICTIMHOOD; THE "INNER EMIGRANTS"; MAKE-BELIEVE RESISTERS CONCLUSION Culture in Three TyranniesNotes; Archival Sources; Bibliography; Index
Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler's enemies. During the war, the arts were closely tied to the propaganda machine that promoted the cause of Germany's military campaigns. Michael H. Kater's engaging and deeply researched account of artistic culture within Nazi Germany considers how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed when the Nazis came to power. With a broad purview that ranges widely across music, literature, film, theater, the press, and visual arts, Kater details the struggle between creative autonomy and political control as he looks at what became of German artists and their work both during and subsequent to Nazi rule.
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Culture--20th century. Arts, German--20th century. National socialism and art--Germany. Arts and society--History--Germany--20th century.