Ulrike Weckel is Professor of History in the Media and the Public at the Justus Liebig University Giessen. Her research interests include postwar dealings with Germany’s Nazi past, gender history, media history, and audience reception. She is the author of Beschämende Bilder. Deutsche Reaktionen auf alliierte Dokumentarfilme über befreite Konzentrationslager (Stuttgart 2012) and has analyzed audience responses to representa­tions of the Nazi past in various feature films and radio and theater plays.

“Given the significance of ideological penetration for explaining the Third Reich, it should make essential reading not just for specialists of Nazi media and propaganda. The individual chapters are succinct and focused but feel accessible to readers unfamiliar with their topics.” • Monatshefte, Vol. 117, No. 4“This is an excellent collection. Its clearly stated project is to revisit and revise existing historical accounts of media audiences and media consumption in Nazi Germany. The book presents a range of high calibre contributions, with much new and original research, and all offering innovative perspectives on the relation between media consumption, National Socialist political culture, and social and cultural life in Nazi Germany.” • Erica Carter, Kings College London

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Media and Their Users in Nazi GermanyUlrike WeckelChapter 1. “To Constantly Swim against the Tide Is Suicide”: The Liberal Press and Its Audience, 1928–1933Jochen HungChapter 2. Active Audiences: Stürmerkästen and the Rise of Der Stürmer’s Activist ReadershipHannah AhlheimChapter 3. Reading Fake News: The “Röhm Putsch,”: The Hitler Myth and the Consumption of Political News under the NazisJanosch SteuwerChapter 4. Beyond Approved Reactions: Assessments of the NSDAP’s Nuremberg Party Rallies in Diaries and Letters, 1933–1938Annina HofferberthChapter 5. Call and Response: The Creation of the National Socialist PublicPeter FritzscheChapter 6. Advertising and Its Audiences in Weimar and Nazi GermanyPamela SwettChapter 7. Concert Programs, Ideology, and the Search for Subjectivity in National Socialist GermanyNeil GregorChapter 8. The “Entartete Kunst”: Exhibitions and Their AudiencesBernhard FuldaChapter 9. Amateur Films from National Socialist Austria as Visual Responses to Nazi PropagandaMichaela Scharf Chapter 10. The Media of Occupation: German Books and Photographs in France, 1940–1944Julia TorrieChapter 11. The Migration of Topoi from Atrocity Films to Their Heirs: Modes of Addressing the Audience in German Post-War CinemaBernhard GrossChapter 12. Finding an Unintended Audience: An SS Photo Album and Its Post-War EditionsUlrike KoppermannAfterwordJane Caplan

Ulrike Weckel is Professor of History in the Media and the Public at the Justus Liebig University Giessen. Her research interests include postwar dealings with Germany’s Nazi past, gender history, media history, and audience reception. She is the author of Beschämende Bilder. Deutsche Reaktionen auf alliierte Dokumentarfilme über befreite Konzentrationslager (Stuttgart 2012) and has analyzed audience responses to representa­tions of the Nazi past in various feature films and radio and theater plays.

“Given the significance of ideological penetration for explaining the Third Reich, it should make essential reading not just for specialists of Nazi media and propaganda. The individual chapters are succinct and focused but feel accessible to readers unfamiliar with their topics.” • Monatshefte, Vol. 117, No. 4“This is an excellent collection. Its clearly stated project is to revisit and revise existing historical accounts of media audiences and media consumption in Nazi Germany. The book presents a range of high calibre contributions, with much new and original research, and all offering innovative perspectives on the relation between media consumption, National Socialist political culture, and social and cultural life in Nazi Germany.” • Erica Carter, Kings College London

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Media and Their Users in Nazi GermanyUlrike WeckelChapter 1. “To Constantly Swim against the Tide Is Suicide”: The Liberal Press and Its Audience, 1928–1933Jochen HungChapter 2. Active Audiences: Stürmerkästen and the Rise of Der Stürmer’s Activist ReadershipHannah AhlheimChapter 3. Reading Fake News: The “Röhm Putsch,”: The Hitler Myth and the Consumption of Political News under the NazisJanosch SteuwerChapter 4. Beyond Approved Reactions: Assessments of the NSDAP’s Nuremberg Party Rallies in Diaries and Letters, 1933–1938Annina HofferberthChapter 5. Call and Response: The Creation of the National Socialist PublicPeter FritzscheChapter 6. Advertising and Its Audiences in Weimar and Nazi GermanyPamela SwettChapter 7. Concert Programs, Ideology, and the Search for Subjectivity in National Socialist GermanyNeil GregorChapter 8. The “Entartete Kunst”: Exhibitions and Their AudiencesBernhard FuldaChapter 9. Amateur Films from National Socialist Austria as Visual Responses to Nazi PropagandaMichaela Scharf Chapter 10. The Media of Occupation: German Books and Photographs in France, 1940–1944Julia TorrieChapter 11. The Migration of Topoi from Atrocity Films to Their Heirs: Modes of Addressing the Audience in German Post-War CinemaBernhard GrossChapter 12. Finding an Unintended Audience: An SS Photo Album and Its Post-War EditionsUlrike KoppermannAfterwordJane Caplan

Ulrike Weckel is Professor of History in the Media and the Public at the Justus Liebig University Giessen. Her research interests include postwar dealings with Germany’s Nazi past, gender history, media history, and audience reception. She is the author of Beschämende Bilder. Deutsche Reaktionen auf alliierte Dokumentarfilme über befreite Konzentrationslager (Stuttgart 2012) and has analyzed audience responses to representa­tions of the Nazi past in various feature films and radio and theater plays.

“Given the significance of ideological penetration for explaining the Third Reich, it should make essential reading not just for specialists of Nazi media and propaganda. The individual chapters are succinct and focused but feel accessible to readers unfamiliar with their topics.” • Monatshefte, Vol. 117, No. 4“This is an excellent collection. Its clearly stated project is to revisit and revise existing historical accounts of media audiences and media consumption in Nazi Germany. The book presents a range of high calibre contributions, with much new and original research, and all offering innovative perspectives on the relation between media consumption, National Socialist political culture, and social and cultural life in Nazi Germany.” • Erica Carter, Kings College London

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Media and Their Users in Nazi GermanyUlrike WeckelChapter 1. “To Constantly Swim against the Tide Is Suicide”: The Liberal Press and Its Audience, 1928–1933Jochen HungChapter 2. Active Audiences: Stürmerkästen and the Rise of Der Stürmer’s Activist ReadershipHannah AhlheimChapter 3. Reading Fake News: The “Röhm Putsch,”: The Hitler Myth and the Consumption of Political News under the NazisJanosch SteuwerChapter 4. Beyond Approved Reactions: Assessments of the NSDAP’s Nuremberg Party Rallies in Diaries and Letters, 1933–1938Annina HofferberthChapter 5. Call and Response: The Creation of the National Socialist PublicPeter FritzscheChapter 6. Advertising and Its Audiences in Weimar and Nazi GermanyPamela SwettChapter 7. Concert Programs, Ideology, and the Search for Subjectivity in National Socialist GermanyNeil GregorChapter 8. The “Entartete Kunst”: Exhibitions and Their AudiencesBernhard FuldaChapter 9. Amateur Films from National Socialist Austria as Visual Responses to Nazi PropagandaMichaela Scharf Chapter 10. The Media of Occupation: German Books and Photographs in France, 1940–1944Julia TorrieChapter 11. The Migration of Topoi from Atrocity Films to Their Heirs: Modes of Addressing the Audience in German Post-War CinemaBernhard GrossChapter 12. Finding an Unintended Audience: An SS Photo Album and Its Post-War EditionsUlrike KoppermannAfterwordJane Caplan