Arts in Nazi Germany

Jonathan Huener is Associate Professor of History at the University of Vermont. He has written on aspects of memorial culture in postwar Germany and Poland, is author of Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945-1979, and co-editor, with Francis R. Nicosia, of Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Origins, Practices, Legacies and Business and Industry in Nazi Germany.

“This slim volume accomplishes a remarkable feat. It provides concise, beautifully crafted essays that provide access to the best scholarship in Nazi cultural history even as they represent the current state of research by leading experts… Supplemented with illustrations and primary sources, this work would make an ideal addition to undergraduate and graduate courses on the Third Reich, sure to provoke lively discussion and further study on the arts in Nazi Germany.”   ·  German Studies Review“Huener and Nicosia’s collection provides exceptional insight not only into the murky world of National Socialist cultural practices, but also into some uncomfortable areas which survived beyond 1945.”  ·  European History Quarterly

• PrefaceIntroduction: The Arts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, ChangeJonathan Huener and Francis R. NicosiaChapter 1. Anti-Semitism and the Arts in Nazi Ideology and PolicyAlan E. SteinweisChapter 2. The Impact of American Popular Culture on German YouthMichael H. KaterChapter 3. The Legacy of Nazi Cinema: Triumph of the Will and Jew Süss RevisitedEric RentschlerChapter 4. Music in the Third Reich: The Complex Task of “Germanization”Pamela M. PotterChapter 5. A Command Performance? The Many Faces of Literature under NazismFrank TrommlerChapter 6. The Art World in Nazi Germany: Choices, Rationalization, and JusticeJonathan PetropoulosAppendixesAppendix I: Letter from Wilhelm Furtwängler to Joseph Goebbels - 12 April 1933Appendix II: Law for the Establishment of a Provisional Chamber of Film - 14 July 1933Appendix III: The Reich Chamber of Culture Law - 22 September 1933Appendix IV: First Decree for the Implementation of the Law for the Reich Chamber of Culture - 1 November 1933Appendix V: Activities of the Cultural Association of German Jews (Jewish Cultural League) - April 1934Appendix VI: The German Authorities and the Cultural Association of German Jews (Jewish Cultural League) - 19 June 1934Appendix VII: Ten Principles for the Creation of German Music by Joseph Goebbels - 28 May 1938Appendix IX: From Hitler’s “Speech on Culture” (Kulturrede) at the Nuremberg Party Congress - September 1938Appendix X: What Are People Reading? A Questionnaire in Berlin Book Stores - December 1940ContributorsSelected BibliographyIndex