The Nazi-fascist new order for European culture

Book 2016

During World War II, Nazi-fascist cultural organizations brought writers, filmmakers, and composers together at international conferences where intellectuals celebrated a nationalist and anti-Semitic vision of European culture and pursued the continent-wide reform of the legal and economic bases of European culture. The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture charts the origins, successes, and collapse of the Axis's pan-European cultural inst...

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Europe Civilization 20th century

Fascist propaganda

National socialism and intellectuals

Nazi propaganda

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ISBN:

9780674545748

Description:

370 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Introduction: A new cultural order for Europe
Creating cultural networks
Cooperation or capitulation?
The European character of the German-Italian Axis
A radicalized, "pure" inter-nationalism
New orders in Berlin and Rome
European culture under German hegemony
The uses and disadvantages of a völkisch European culture
Conclusion: International culture as an ideological battleground

LCCN:

2016013875

Control Number:

1998330

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