Title Culture in the Third Reich / Moritz Föllmer ; translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe

Edition First edition Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 322 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover -- Culture in the Third Reich -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: 'Like a Dream' -- 1: FROM WEIMAR CULTURE TO 'GERMAN' CULTURE -- Weimar as 'Crisis': Nationalism v Diversity -- Power and Marginalization: Nazi Violence -- Decision and Renewal: The Meanings of 1933 -- 2: NATIONAL SOCIALISM AS A CULTURAL SYNTHESIS -- Prestige and Patronage: The Political Control of Culture -- The Power of Imagination: Media and Consumption -- The Isolation of the Dissidents: Anti-fascist Culture -- 3: TOWARDS A 'PURE' CULTURE The Primacy of Race: Science, Art, and Antisemitism -- Imperial Power on Display: Public Architecture and Propaganda for War -- German Jews: Between Persecution and Self-Assertion -- 4: CULTURES AT WAR -- Combat and Entertainment: Media and Propaganda -- Experiences of Empire: Occupation and Looting Art -- The Renewal of Europe? Limits of Cultural Collaboration -- 5: CULTURE OF DESTRUCTION -- In the Shadow of Extermination: Culture and the Holocaust -- Against German Culture? The View from Abroad -- Innocence and Downfall: The End of Hitler's Culture -- CONCLUSION: After the Nazi Dream -- NOTES Introduction: 'Like a Dream' -- 1. From Weimar Culture to 'German' Culture -- 2. National Socialism as a Cultural Synthesis -- 3. Towards a 'Pure' Culture -- 4. Cultures at War -- 5. Culture of Destruction -- Conclusion: After the Nazi Dream -- GLOSSARY -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PICTURE CREDITS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INDEX Summary 'It's like being in a dream', commented Joseph Goebbels when he visited Nazi-occupied Paris in the summer of 1940. Dream and reality did indeed intermingle in the culture of the Third Reich, racialist fantasies and spectacular propaganda set-pieces contributing to this atmosphere alongside more benign cultural offerings such as performances of classical music or popular film comedies. A cultural palette that catered to the tastes of the majority helped encourage acceptance of the regime. The Third Reich was therefore eager to associate itself with comfortable middle-brow conventionality, while at the same time exploiting the latest trends that modern mass culture had to offer. And it was precisely because the culture of the Nazi period accommodated such a range of different needs and aspirations that it was so successfully able to legitimize war, imperial domination, and destruction. 0Moritz Foellmer turns the spotlight on this fundamental aspect of the Third Reich's successful cultural appeal in this ground-breaking new study, investigating what 'culture' meant for people in the years between 1933 and 1945: for convinced National Socialists at one end of the spectrum, via the legions of the apparently 'unpolitical', right through to anti-fascist activists, Jewish people, and other victims of the regime at the other end of the spectrum. Relating the everyday experience of people living under Nazism, he is able to give us a privileged insight into the question of why so many Germans enthusiastically embraced the regime and identified so closely with it Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Translated from German Vendor-supplied metadata Subject National socialism in popular culture -- Germany National socialism -- Psychological aspects Politics and culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Propaganda, German -- History -- 20th century Social conditions National socialism -- Psychological aspects National socialism in popular culture Cultural policy National socialism Politics and culture Propaganda, German SUBJECT Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054658 Germany -- Cultural policy Germany -- History -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054594 Subject Germany Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Noakes, Jeremy, translator. Sharpe, Lesley, 1952- translator. Translation of (work): Föllmer, Moritz. Leben wie im Traum. English. ISBN 9780192545978 0192545973 9780192545985 0192545981

Other Titles Leben wie im Traum. English

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