Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 541 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781139104180
Content:
Inhumanities is an unprecedented account of the ways Nazi Germany manipulated and mobilized European literature, philosophy, painting, sculpture and music in support of its ideological ends. David B. Dennis shows how, based on belief that the Third Reich represented the culmination of Western civilization, culture became a key propaganda tool in the regime's program of national renewal and its campaign against political, national and racial enemies. Focusing on the daily output of the Völkischer Beobachter, the party's official organ and the most widely circulating German newspaper of the day, he reveals how activists twisted history, biography and aesthetics to fit Nazism's authoritarian, militaristic and anti-Semitic world views. Ranging from National Socialist coverage of Germans such as Luther, Dürer, Goethe, Beethoven, Wagner and Nietzsche to 'great men of the Nordic West' such as Socrates, Leonardo and Michelangelo, Dennis reveals the true extent of the regime's ambitious attempt to reshape the 'German mind'
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-107-02049-8
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-107-52185-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Völkischer Beobachter
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Berichterstattung
;
Kultur
;
Propaganda
;
Geschichte
;
Völkischer Beobachter
;
Propaganda
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139104180
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
Author information:
Dennis, David B. 1961-
