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NAZI CULTURE: INTELLECTUAL, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL LIFE IN THE THIRD REICH
Table of Contents:
Back Cover
Advisory Board
Acknowledgments
Editor's Note
INTRODUCTION
I. HITLER SETS THE TONE
Editor's Introduction
FROM CULTURE AS THE FAITH IN AN IDEAL REICH TO ITS DIFFUSION AMONG THE MASSES
The Power of Ideals
The Aryan as Custodian of Culture
The State Is Not an End But a Means
The Jew Has No Culture
The Necessity of Propaganda
How Hitler Viewed the Masses
Education Must Be Based on Ideals
Education, Instinct, and Will
HITLER DEFINES CULTURE IN DEFINING ART
The Cultural Renascence
2. WHAT SORT OF A REVOLUTION?
THE GOOD FIGHT
Here Marched the New Germany, by FRIEDRICH JOACHIM KLAEHN
A Meeting-Hall Brawl, by KURT MASSMANN
THE BONDS OF FAMILY
National Socialism Has Restored the Family, by HANNS ANDERLAHN
The German Volk Is an Interlacing of Families, by LUDWIG LEONHARDT
Marriage, Morality, and Property, by HERMANN PAULL
THE IDEAL OF WOMANHOOD
The Tasks of Women, by ADOLF HITLER
Emancipation from the Emancipation Movement, ALFRED ROSENBERG
Domestic Diligence from Blood and Soil
The Female Bird, by JOSEPH GOEBBELS
Women That We Can Love
Frau Goebbels on German Women
The Blond Craze
A Shiny Nose and the German Nation
Faith and Beauty
Right Conduct
The Honor Cross of the German Mother
The Woman Student
Against the Political Woman, by ENGELBERT HUBER
THE SOCIAL REALITY
Does the Five O'Clock Tea Suit Our Time?
Fairytale Scenes on Peacock Island
Beautiful Gowns at the Annual Press Ball
Wanted: Croupiers
3. THE FOUNDATION: RACISM
The Nordic Race as "Ideal Type", by HANS F. K. GUNTHER
Racial Soul, Landscape, and World Domination, by LUDWIG FERDINAND CLAUSS
The Earth-Centered Jew Lacks a Soul, by ALFRED ROSENBERG
Heredity and Racial Biology for Students, by JAKOB GRAF
The New Biology: Training in Racial Citizenship, by PAUL BROHMER
To Preserve the Strength of the Race: Compulsory Sterilization, by ERICH RISTOW
4. BUILDING MYTHS AND HEROES
Nietzsche and National Socialism, by ALFRED BAEUMLER
A Soldier Believes in Plain Talk, by ERNST ROHM
Michael: A German Fate, by JOSEPH GOEBBELS
Germany Must Live, by FRIEDRICH BUBENDEN
The Difference Between Generations, by HANNS JOHST
Fritz Todt: Contemporary Hero, by EDUARD SCHONLEBEN
Frederick the Great: Prussian Hero, by WILHELM IHDE
The Diary of an SA Man's Bride, by GUDRUN STREITER
On Festivities in the School, by HERMANN KLAUSS
5. TOWARD A TOTAL CULTURE
Intellectuals Must Belong to the People, by HERMANN BURTE
The Birth of Intellectuals
Streicher the Intellectual
A Balance Is Necessary
The German Peasant Formed German History, by R. WALTHER DARRE
Freedom and Organization, by JOSEPH GOEBBELS
On the National Responsibility of Publishers, by ADOLF SPEMANN
Goebbels Forbids Art Criticism
What Is German in German Art?, by KURT KARL EBERLEIN
The Poet Summoned by History, by HEINRICH ZILLICH
Wulfe's Manor: Two Episodes in a Peasant's Life, by JOSEFA BERENS-TOTENOHL
A Rowdy as Hero: From an Anti-Jewish Novel, by TUDEL WELLER
Events at the Prussian State Theater, by ECKART VON NASO
Playbills of the Herne City Theater, 1936-1940
The Winter Program of the German Radio, 1936
Fundamental Features of Radio Programming, 1938
German Films for Venice, 1938
The Film Public Is Not So Stupid
6. SCIENCE AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM
The Limits of Science, by PHILIPP LENARD
Respect for Facts and Aptitude for Exact Observation Reside in the Nordic Race, by JOHANNES STARK
Nature Presupposes a Spiritual Disposition, by BRUNO THURING
Psychotherapy and Political World View, by KURT GAUGER
The Physician Must Come to Terms with the Irrational, by HANNS LOHR
7. CHRISTIANITY
The Fuhrer Bequeathed to Me by the Lord
Christ in the Community of Blood and Fate
The Task of Proclaiming Christ among the German People
National Socialist and Christian Concepts Are Incompatible, by MARTIN BORMANN
The Epistle of St. Paul Is in Error
To Capture Youth
Judaism, Christianity, and Germany, by CARDINAL FAULHABER
Nurses and Philosophy
8. THE KEY: EDUCATION OF YOUTH
INSIDE THE SCHOOL
To Be Part of a Movement!, by INGE SCHOLL
The Parents Abdicate, by PAUL OESTREICH
Skepticism and Participation, by ILSE MCKEE
The Lively Youngster
The Test, by L. GRUNBERG
Physical Education and National Socialism
Ten Calories More Character, by HANS SCHEMM
The Fellowship of Battle
Racial Instruction and the National Community
Do Not Stand Apart!, by LUCIE ALEXANDER
Can Youth Be National Socialist?, by RUDOLPH RAMLOW
A SCHOOLBOOK SAMPLER
The Fuhrer of Elementary-School Children
From the Oak Tree to Certain Victory, by WILHELM STECKELINGS
The Sun as a Symbol of Dedicated Youth, by BALDUR VON SCHIRACH
A Flight Through the Storm and Hitler's Mission, by OTTO DIETRICH
Essays with Right Answers
THE PRESSURES OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL
The Hitler Youth, by BALDUR VON SCHIRACH
The Development of the SS Man
THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY
The Renovation of the Academic Community, by GERHARD KRUGER
Work Is Future, by WEINER BEUMELBURG
Admission to the Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Berlin
New Courses for a New Reich
The Nature of Academic Freedom, by WALTER SCHULTZE
Jewish Graduates Are Numbers, Not Persons
9. WHAT IS THE STATE AND WHO ARE ITS CITIZENS?
Public Law in a New Context, by CARL SCHMITT
Civil Rights and the Natural Inequality of Man, by WILHELM STUCKART AND HANS GLOBKE
The Reich Citizenship Law
The Jew Is Outside the Law, by WALTHER BUCH
Anchoring the Civil Service in the Nation, by ROLAND FREISLER
10. WORKERS AND SHOPKEEPERS
THE WORKER: IDEAL AND REALITY
Statistics on Occupational Composition of Members of the Nazi Party
The Struggle for the Achievement of German Socialism
The Correct Attitude Toward Work
Plant Managers -- This Must Not Be!
A Wage Freeze for Stenographers
The Conversion of "Comrade" Muller, by WALTER DACH
THE BILL IS PRESENTED
What the German People Pay in Taxes, 1939
The Cost of Living, 1933-1937
They Who Serve Are Well Paid
The Situation of the German Retail Trade
Throttling the Retail Trade
The Price Police
A Butcher Resists
11. THE ASSUMPTION OF POWER
Our Town under the Swastika, by OTTO MICHAEL KNAB
The Changed Tempo of Life: The City of Herne
The Nazis Take Over Cologne
Little Things Create Pressures, by HERMANN STRESAU
Vanishing Friends, by ERICH EBERMAYER
Illustrations
"The Four Elements," a painting which hung over the mantelpiece in Hitler's house in Munich
The ideal Aryan family as represented on a calendar [From Kaknder des rassenpolitischen Amtes der NSDAP, 1938.
An example of the kind of poster art that played an important role in Nazi propaganda [From Anschlage, deutsche Plakate als Dokumente der Zeit (Munich, 1963)]
The Honor Cross of the German Mother [From Das Jahr IV (Berlin, 1939)]
Adolf Ziegler's "The Judgment of Paris," illustrating ideal Aryan types [From Die Kunst im dritten Reich (1939)]
"Awakening" by Richard Klein, which was shown at the 1937 Exhibition of German Art [From Grosse deutsche Kunstausstellung 1937]
A painting of the ideal German girl [From N. S. Frauenvarte, Heft I, Jahrg. 8 (July 1939)]
A film advertisement, 1936 [From Schleisische Tageszeitung, November 16, 1936 (Wiener Library Clipping Collection).)
Arno Brecker's sculpture representing an idealized Germanic hero [From Grosse deutsche Kunstausstellung 1942]
"The Guardian" by Arno Brecker, one of Hitler's favorite sculptors [From Franz Rodens, Vom Wesen deutscher Kunst (Berlin, 1941)]
A mural idealizing active youth [From Die Kunst im dritten Reich (1939)]
Works by George Grosz and Elk Eber, a confrontation between "degenerate art" and "true" Nazi art [From(Deutsche Kunst und entartete Kunst, edited by Adolf Dresler (Munich, 1928)]
A peasant house built after 1933, but in the style of the Middle Ages [From Die neue Heimat (Munich, 1940)]
A "shrine of honor" of the Hitler Youth; a faithful copy of an ancient German hall [From Die neue Heimat (Munich, 1940)]
The House of German Art in Munich, designed by Hitler's favorite architect, Paul Ludwig Troost [From Franz Rodens, Vom Wesen deutscher Kunst (Berlin, 1941).]
A painting by Adolf Hitler [From N. S. Frauenwarte, Heft III, Jahrg. 6 (August 1937)]
Hitler as the "friend of children" [From Fibel fur die Grundschule (Gutersloth, 1935)]
German school children in uniform [From NSDAP Standarten Kalender 1939.]
German girls in the dress of the Bronze Age [From N. S. Frauenhuch (Wiener Library Photographic Archives).]
An open-air theater in the kind of romantic setting popular under the Third Reich [From A Nation Builds (New York: German Information Library, 1940).]
The actor Werner Krauss in the 1940 film Jew Suss [From H. H. Wollenberg, Fifty Years of German Film (London, 1948)]
The actor Lothar Muthel as Schlageter, in the famous Nazi drama of the same name [From Berliner Illustrierte (1933), No. 17]
A mythological painting of Hitler speaking to his early followers [From Grosse deutsche Kunstausstellung 1937, p. 48.]
Monumental buildings designed as a setting for mass meetings and parades at Nuremberg [From Die Kunst im dritten Reich (1937)]
An advertisement exhorting the people to observe the weekly "one pot" meal [From Ewiges Deutschland, Heft III, Jahrg. 4 (March 1939)]
Hitler addressing a Party Day meeting in Nuremberg, 1935 [From Leni Riefenstahl, Hinter den Kulissen des Reichsparteitag Films (Munich, 1935)]