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Main subject categories: • German history • History of the Third Reich • Literature of Nazi Germany • Motion pictures of Nazi Germany • Cultural policies of the Third ReichThis book is the first survey in English of literature and film in Nazi Germany. It treats not only works sympathetic to National Socialism, but also works of the so-called Inner Emigration, of the resistance, and those written in prisons and concentration camps. Much of this literature is not easily accessible in German, and not available at all in English translation. Historical and ideological context is provided in chapters covering influential works of the time such as Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the Twentieth Century and Houston Stewart Chamberlain's The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. Schoeps also analyzes Nazi cultural policies, fascist histories of literature, and the role of German studies and Germanists in the Nazi movement. A major section of the book is devoted to film, then a relatively new medium of communication whose propaganda value was clearly recognized by Goebbels, the minister for propaganda and president of the Reich's Chamber of Culture. One of the most interesting areas of resea

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Author

Karl-Heinz Schoeps, Kathleen M. Dell’Orto (Translator)

Publisher

Camden House, Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781571136251

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism