TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dennis,David B.
TI  - Inhumanities: Nazi interpretations of western culture 
SN  - 9781107521858 (paperback)
AV  - 302 DD 254 D411i 2015
U1  - 909/.09821 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
KW  - Party work
KW  - Vèolkischer Beobachter (Munich, Germany : 1920)
KW  - Nazi propaganda
KW  - Germany
KW  - Fascism and culture
KW  - Civilization, Western
KW  - Press and politics
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Propaganda
KW  - Civilización occidental
KW  - Fascismo y cultura
KW  - Alemania
KW  - Prensa y política
KW  - Propaganda nazi
KW  - Guerra mundial II, 1939-1945
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 1918-1933
KW  - 1933-1945
KW  - Civilización
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - Historia
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 464-532) and index; Foundations of Nazi cultural history. -- The "Germanic" origins of western culture -- Vox volkish -- The western tradition as political and patriotic -- The western tradition as anti-semitic -- The archenemy incarnate -- Blind to the light. -- Classicism romanticized -- Intolerance toward enlightenment -- Forging steel romanticism -- Romantic music as "our greatest legacy" -- Modern dilemmas. -- Realist paradox and expressionist confusion -- Nordic existentialists and volkish founders -- Music after Wagner -- "Holy" war and Weimar "crisis" -- Heralds of the front experience -- Weimar culture wars 1: defending German spirit from "Circumcision" -- Weimar culture wars 2: combatting "degeneracy" -- Nazi "solutions" -- "Honor your German masters" -- The Nazi "renaissance" -- Kultur at war
N2  - 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'
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