How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism? How can a highly artistic individual function professionally in so threatening a climate? Composers of the Nazi Era is the final book in a critically acclaimed trilogy that includes Different Drummers (OUP 1992) and The Twisted Muse (OUP 1997), which won the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. Here, historian Michael H. Kater provides a detailed study of the often interrelated careers of eight prominent German composers who lived and worked amid the dictatorship of the Third Reich,...
How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism? How can a highly artistic individual function professionally in so threatening a climate? C...
When the African-American dancer Josephine Baker visited Berlin in 1925, she found it dazzling. "The city had a jewel-like sparkle," she said, "the vast cafes reminded me of ocean liners powered by the rhythms of their orchestras. There was music everywhere." Eager to look ahead after the crushing defeat of World War I, Weimar Germany embraced the modernism that swept through Europe and was crazy over jazz. But with the rise of National Socialism came censorship and proscription: an art form born on foreign soil and presided over by Negroes and Jews could have no place in the culture of a...
When the African-American dancer Josephine Baker visited Berlin in 1925, she found it dazzling. "The city had a jewel-like sparkle," she said, "the va...
In modern times, the recruitment of children into a political organization and ideology reached its boldest embodiment in the Hitler Youth, founded in 1933 soon after the Nazi Party assumed power in Germany. Determining that by age ten children's minds could be turned from play to politics, the regime inducted nearly all German juveniles between the ages of ten and eighteen into its state-run organization. The result was a potent tool for bending young minds and hearts to the will of Adolf Hitler.
Baldur von Schirach headed a strict chain of command whose goal was to shift the...
In modern times, the recruitment of children into a political organization and ideology reached its boldest embodiment in the Hitler Youth, founded...
"A brilliant attempt to explain the profound historical crisis into which medicine had plummeted during the Nazi period with the tried methods of social history.--Historische Zeitschrift
"The author has drawn from an extraordinary range of sources, and the weight of evidence he compiles will certainly give pause to anyone who still wants to believe that professionals kept their hands clean in this era of great and methodical crimes.--Journal of Modern History
"Kater's important book deserves close attention from historians of medicine and German historians...
"A brilliant attempt to explain the profound historical crisis into which medicine had plummeted during the Nazi period with the tried methods of...
Standardwerk der NS-Forschung: Die Schutzstaffel Heinrich Himmlers entfaltete wahrend des Dritten Reiches hochste Aktivitat, und das nicht nur als Agent totalitarer Machtvollstreckung. Kater zeigt, dass die SS den ernsthaften Versuch einer Infiltration des deutschen Kultur- und Geisteslebens unternommen hat, aus Motiven, die nicht zuletzt in der bizarren Personlichkeit Himmlers selbst begrundet liegen. Himmlers SS-Forschungsamt "Ahnenerbe" entwickelte sich, uber den Umweg anfangs noch harmlos anmutender geisteswissenschaftlicher Projekte, zu einem der gefahrlichsten Instrumente...
Standardwerk der NS-Forschung: Die Schutzstaffel Heinrich Himmlers entfaltete wahrend des Dritten Reiches hochste Aktivitat, und das nicht nur als Age...
Lotte Lehmann ranks among the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. She was a favorite of Richard Strauss, and over her lifetime became the friend of other famous men: Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini and Thomas Mann. She had a famous encounter with Hermann Goring, in which he claimed to want to make her the foremost singer in Nazi Germany. By the time of her final performance in 1951, she was considered one of the finest singing actresses of all time. Rather than a traditional biography, this book aims to be both a descriptive narrative of Lehmann s life and a critical analysis of...
Lotte Lehmann ranks among the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. She was a favorite of Richard Strauss, and over her lifetime became th...
