Nazi
Culture
Intellectual, Cultural,
and Social Life in the Third Reich
George L. Mosse
George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural
and Intellectual History
Stanley G. Payne, David J. Sorkin, and John S. Tortorice, Series Editors
"For the sanity of the human race it is essential that
the record of Hitler's Germany should remain alive and be retold
again and again as a warning for the future. Professor Mosse's
book helps keep the record alive."
—Saturday Review
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 currents—in art, music, science, education, drama,
and on the radio?
Professor Mosse's extensive analysis of Nazi culture—groundbreaking
upon its original publication in 1966—is 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 today—as a document
of everyday life in one of history's darkest eras and as a living
memory that reminds us never to forget.
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.
The University of Wisconsin Press also publishes George L. Mosse's Confronting History: A Memoir
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October 2003
LC: 2003045827 DD
448 pp. 6 x 9
"A magnificently edited collection."
—Chicago
Tribune
"A full picture of the scope and methods
of the anti-cultural vandalism of the Nazis."
—Christian
Science Monitor |
