Title Inhumanities : Nazi interpretations of western culture / David B. Dennis.

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Description	xvi, 541 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 464-532) and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	An account of the ways Nazi Germany, based on belief that the Third Reich represented the culmination of Western Civilization, manipulated and mobilized European culture as a key propaganda tool in the regime's program campaign against political, national, and racial enemies.
Subject	Nazi propaganda -- Germany.
	Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei -- Party work.
	Völkischer Beobachter (Munich, Germany : 1920)
	Fascism and culture -- Germany.
	Germany -- Civilization -- 20th century.
	Germany -- History -- 1918-1933.
	Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
	Civilization, Western.
	Press and politics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda.
	Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. (DE-588)4075226-4
	Völkischer Beobachter. (DE-588)4188483-8
	Propaganda. (DE-588)4076374-2
	Kultur. (DE-588)4125698-0
	Westliche Welt. (DE-588)4079237-7
ISBN	9781107020498 (hardback)
	1107020492 (hardback)
Standard No.	40021651397

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