Nazi Culture

by Mosse, George L.

• ISBN13: 9780299193041
• ISBN10: 0299193047
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

What was life like under the Third Reich? What went on between parents and children? What were the prevailing attitudes about sex, morality, religion? How did workers perceive the effects of the New Order in the workplace? What were the cultural currentsin art, music, science, education, drama, and on the radio? Professor Mosse's extensive analysis of Nazi culturegroundbreaking upon its original publication in 1966is now offered to readers of a new generation. Selections from newspapers, novellas, plays, and diaries as well as the public pronouncements of Nazi leaders, churchmen, and professors describe National Socialism in practice and explore what it meant for the average German. By recapturing the texture of culture and thought under the Third Reich, Mosse's work still resonates todayas a document of everyday life in one of history's darkest eras and as a living memory that reminds us never to forget.

Author Biography

George L. Mosse (1919-1999) was the John C. Bascom Professor of European History and the Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has long been recognized as one of the most creative and innovative historians of modern Europe during the second half of the nineteenth century. His research ranged from the Protestant Reformation and the seventeenth century to the political, social and cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Mosse revolutionized the study of Nazism and facism, and opened new dimensions in such diverse fields as nationalism, racism, historical memory and symbolism, the commemoration of mass death, German-Jewish history, and the history of sexuality and the body. No other Europeanist historian of the later twentieth century exhibited so broad a range of research and analysis.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xix
Hitler Sets the Tone	1	(16)
Editor's Introduction	1	(4)
From Culture as the Faith in an Ideal Reich to Its Diffusion Among the Masses	5	(6)
The Power of Ideals	5	(1)
The Aryan as Custodian of Culture	5	(1)
The State Is Not an End But a Means	6	(1)
The Jew Has No Culture	7	(1)
The Necessity of Propaganda	7	(1)
How Hitler Viewed the Masses	8	(1)
Education Must Be Based on Ideals	9	(1)
Education, Instinct, and Will	10	(1)
Hitler Defines Culture in Defining Art	11	(6)
The Cultural Renascence	11	(6)
What Sort of a Revolution?	17	(40)
Editor's Introduction	17	(7)
The Good Fight	24	(6)
Here Marched the New Germany	24	(3)
Friedrich Joachim Klaehn
A Meeting-Hall Brawl	27	(3)
Kurt Massmann
The Bonds of Family	30	(9)
National Socialism Has Restored the Family	30	(4)
Hanns Anderlahn
The German Volk Is an Interlacing of Families	34	(1)
Ludwig Leonhardt
Marriage, Morality, and Property	35	(4)
Hermann Paull
The Ideal of Womanhood	39	(8)
The Tasks of Women	39	(1)
Adolf Hitler
Emancipation from the Emancipation Movement	40	(1)
Alfred Rosenberg
Domestic Diligence from Blood and Soil	41	(1)
The Female Bird	41	(1)
Joseph Goebbels
Women That We Can Love	41	(1)
Frau Goebbels on German Women	42	(1)
The Blond Craze	43	(1)
A Shiny Nose and the German Nation	43	(1)
Faith and Beauty	44	(1)
Right Conduct	45	(1)
The Honor Cross of the German Mother	45	(1)
The Woman Student	46	(1)
Against the Political Woman	47	(1)
Engelbert Huber
The Social Reality	47	(10)
Does the Five O'Clock Tea Suit Our Time?	47	(6)
Fairytale Scenes on Peacock Island	53	(1)
Beautiful Gowns at the Annual Press Ball	54	(1)
Wanted: Croupiers	55	(2)
The Foundation: Racism	57	(36)
Editor's Introduction	57	(4)
The Nordic Race as ``Ideal Type''	61	(4)
Hans F. K. Gunther
Racial Soul, Landscape, and World Domination	65	(10)
Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss
The Earth-Centered Jew Lacks a Soul	75	(4)
Alfred Rosenberg
Heredity and Racial Biology for Students	79	(2)
Jakob Graf
The New Biology: Training in Racial Citizenship	81	(9)
Paul Brohmer
To Preserve the Strength of the Race: Compulsory Sterilization	90	(3)
Erich Ristow
Building Myths and Heroes	93	(40)
Editor's Introduction	93	(4)
Nietzsche and National Socialism	97	(4)
Alfred Baeumler
A Soldier Believes in Plain Talk	101	(3)
Ernst Rohm
Michael: A German Fate	104	(8)
Joseph Goebbels
Germany Must Live	112	(4)
Friedrich Bubenden
The Difference Between Generations	116	(2)
Hanns Johst
Fritz Todt: Contemporary Hero	118	(1)
Eduard Schonleben
Frederick the Great: Prussian Hero	119	(3)
Wilhelm Ihde
The Diary of an SA Man's Bride	122	(5)
Gudrun Streiter
On Festivities in the School	127	(6)
Hermann Klauss
Toward a Total Culture	133	(64)
Editor's Introduction	133	(8)
Intellectuals Must Belong to the People	141	(4)
Hermann Burte
The Birth of Intellectuals	145	(1)
Streicher the Intellectual	146	(1)
A Balance Is Necessary	146	(1)
The German Peasant Formed German History	147	(4)
R. Walther Darre
Freedom and Organization	151	(8)
Joseph Goebbels
On the National Responsibility of Publishers	159	(3)
Adolf Spemann
Goebbels Forbids Art Criticism	162	(1)
What Is German in German Art?	163	(2)
Kurt Karl Eberlein
The Poet Summoned by History	165	(3)
Heinrich Zillich
Wulfe's Manor: Two Episodes in a Peasant's Life	168	(9)
Josefa Berens-Totenohl
A Rowdy as Hero: From an Anti-Jewish Novel	177	(8)
Tudel Weller
Events at the Prussian State Theater	185	(3)
Eckart Von Naso
Playbills of the Herne City Theater, 1936-1940	188	(3)
The Winter Program of the German Radio, 1936	191	(1)
Fundamental Features of Radio Programming, 1938	192	(2)
German Films for Venice, 1938	194	(1)
The Film Public Is Not So Stupid	195	(2)
Science and National Socialism	197	(38)
Editor's Introduction	197	(4)
The Limits of Science	201	(4)
Philipp Lenard
Respect for Facts and Aptitude for Exact Observation Reside in the Nordic Race	205	(3)
Johannes Stark
Nature Presupposes a Spiritual Disposition	208	(7)
Bruno Thuring
Psychotherapy and Political World View	215	(12)
Kurt Gauger
The Physician Must Come to Terms with the Irrational	227	(8)
Hanns Lohr
Christianity	235	(28)
Editor's Introduction	235	(6)
The Fuhrer Bequeathed to Me by the Lord	241	(1)
Christ in the Community of Blood and Fate	241	(2)
The Task of Proclaiming Christ among the German People	243	(1)
National Socialist and Christian Concepts Are Incompatible	244	(4)
Martin Bormann
The Epistle of St. Paul Is in Error	248	(2)
To Capture Youth	250	(6)
Judaism, Christianity, and Germany	256	(5)
Cardinal Faulhaber
Nurses and Philosophy	261	(2)
The Key: Education of Youth	263	(56)
Editor's Introduction	263	(8)
Inside the School	271	(16)
To Be Part of a Movement!	271	(3)
Inge Scholl
The Parents Abdicate	274	(2)
Paul Oestreich
Skepticism and Participation	276	(4)
Ilse Mckee
The Lively Youngster	280	(1)
The Test	280	(1)
L. Grunberg
Physical Education and National Socialism	281	(1)
Ten Calories More Character	282	(1)
Hans Schemm
The Fellowship of Battle	283	(1)
Racial Instruction and the National Community	283	(1)
Do Not Stand Apart!	284	(2)
Lucie Alexander
Can Youth Be National Socialist?	286	(1)
Rudolph Ramlow
A Schoolbook Sampler	287	(7)
The Fuhrer of Elementary-School Children	287	(1)
From the Oak Tree to Certain Victory	288	(2)
Wilhelm Steckelings
The Sun as a Symbol of Dedicated Youth	290	(1)
Baldur Von Schirach
A Flight Through the Storm and Hitler's Mission	291	(2)
Otto Dietrich
Essays with Right Answers	293	(1)
The Pressures Outside the School	294	(10)
The Hitler Youth	294	(9)
Baldur Von Schirach
The Development of the SS Man	303	(1)
The University Community	304	(15)
The Renovation of the Academic Community	304	(4)
Gerhard Kruger
Work Is Future	308	(1)
Werner Beumelburg
Admission to the Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Berlin	309	(3)
New Courses for a New Reich	312	(2)
The Nature of Academic Freedom	314	(3)
Walter Schultze
Jewish Graduates Are Numbers, Not Persons	317	(2)
What is the State and Who are its Citizens?	319	(22)
Editor's Introduction	319	(4)
Public Law in a New Context	323	(4)
Carl Schmitt
Civil Rights and the Natural Inequality of Man	327	(8)
Wilhelm Stuckart
Hans Globke
The Reich Citizenship Law	335	(1)
The Jew Is Outside the Law	336	(1)
Walther Buch
Anchoring the Civil Service in the Nation	337	(4)
Roland Freisler
Workers and Shopkeepers	341	(24)
Editor's Introduction	341	(5)
The Worker: Ideal and Reality	346	(11)
Statistics on Occupational Composition of Members of the Nazi Party	346	(1)
The Struggle for the Achievement of German Socialism	347	(1)
The Correct Attitude Toward Work	348	(2)
Plant Managers---This Must Not Be!	350	(1)
A Wage Freeze for Stenographers	350	(1)
The Conversion of ``Comrade'' Muller	351	(6)
Walter Dach
The Bill is Presented	357	(8)
What the German People Pay in Taxes, 1939	357	(2)
The Cost of Living, 1933-1937	359	(2)
They Who Serve Are Well Paid	361	(1)
The Situation of the German Retail Trade	362	(1)
Throttling the Retail Trade	362	(1)
The Price Police	363	(1)
A Butcher Resists	364	(1)
The Assumption of Power	365
Editor's Introduction	365
Our Town under the Swastika	369
Otto Michael Knab
The Changed Tempo of Life: The City of Herne	375
The Nazis Take Over Cologne	377
Little Things Create Pressures	383
Hermann Stresau
Vanishing Friends	385
Erich Ebermayer