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"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"--Publisher's description

Title Culture in Nazi Germany / Michael H. Kater.
Related place New Haven (Conn.)-place of publication
Publisher New Haven : Yale University Press
Creation Date [2019]
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-432) and index.
Content 1. Deconstructing modernism. A purge of the Weimar era
New Nazi controls
The quarrel over expressionism
Exhibitions of degenerate art and music -- 2. 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 -- 3. Jews in the Nazi cultural establishment. Anti-Jewish measures
The Jewish Culture League
Anti-Semitism in the Nazi arts
Human tragedies -- 4. 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 the war
Book and sword
Art and architecture
Culture to the fronts -- 5. Artist émigrés. Political, economic, and psychological barriers
False refugees?
The case of Thomas Mann -- 6. 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 tyrannies.
Extent xviii, 453 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits
24 cm
Language English
Copyright Date ©2019
National Library system number 997012374275105171

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