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For many years Nazi cultural policy has been a taboo subject among historians, but the success of several recent books and exhibitions has opened up an extremely interesting area of research. This collection of essays by German and American scholars studies the official Nazi attitude to theatre, film, architecture, art, and literature and shows how rapidly the vibrant and diverse culture of the Weimar period was torn to pieces in public campaigns of vilification and persecution, to be replaced by a notionally 'wholesome' official culture. The important part these campaigns played in the establishment of Nazi rule - and the high priority given to them by Hitler and his closest associates - make these essays essential reading for an understanding of the nature of the Nazi state.
Contents
Introduction - Nazi Cultural Politics: Intentionalism vs Functionalism; E.Bahr - Purification and Professionalization: The Reich Chamber of Culture and the Nazi Purge of Artists; A.Steinweis - The Nazi 'Seizure' of the Berlin Philharmonic, or the Decline of a Bourgeois Musical Institution; P.M.Potter - The Foundations of the Theater Policy in Nazi Germany; B.Drewniak - Nazi Film Policy: Control, Ideology, and Propaganda; D.Welch - A Guide through the Visual Arts Administration of the Third Reich; J.Petropoulos - Literary Policy in the 'Third Reich'; J-P.Barbian - The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels as a Source for the Understanding of Nazi Cultural Politics; G.R.Cuomo - Notes on Contributors - Index