Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life in the Third Reich (George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History)

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. Acknowledgments Contents Editor’s Note Contents Illustrations Introduction 1 Hitler Sets the Tone 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 The Cultural Renascence 2 What Sort of a Revolution? Here Marched the New Germany A Meeting-Hall Brawl National Socialism Has Restored the Family The German Volk Is an Interlacing of Families Marriage, Morality, and Property Emancipation from the Emancipation Movement Domestic Diligence from Blood and Soil The Female Bird 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 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 Foundations: Racism The Nordic Race as “Ideal Type” Racial Soul, Landscape, and World Domination The Earth-Centered Jew Lacks a Soul Heredity and Racial Biology for Students The New Biology: Training in Racial Citizenship To Preserve the Strength of the Race: Compulsory Sterilization 4 Building Myths and Heroes Nietzsche and National Socialism A Soldier Believes in Plain Talk Michael: A German Fate Germany Must Live The Difference Between Generations Fritz Todt: Contemporary Hero Frederick the Great: Prussian Hero The Diary of an SA Man’s Bride On Festivities in the School 5 Toward a Total Culture Intellectuals Must Belong to the People The Birth of Intellectuals Streicher the Intellectual A Balance Is Necessary The German Peasant Formed German History Freedom and Organization On the National Responsibility of Publishers Goebbels Forbids Art Criticism What Is German in German Art? The Poet Summoned by History Wulfe’s Manor: Two Episodes' in a Peasant’s Life A Rowdy as Hero: From an Anti-Jewish Novel Events at the Prussian State Theater Playbills of the Heme 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 Respect for Facts and Aptitude for Exact Observation Reside in the Nordic Race Nature Presupposes a Spiritual Disposition Psychotherapy and Political World View The Physician Must Come to Terms with the Irrational 7 Christianity The Führer 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 The Epistle of St. Paul Is in Error To Capture Youth Judaism, Christianity, and Germany Nurses and Philosophy 8 The Key: Education of Youth To Be Part of a Movement! The Parents Abdicate Skepticism and Participation The Lively Youngster The Test Physical Education and National Socialism Ten Calories More Character The Fellowship of Battle Racial Instruction and the National Community Do Not Stand Apart! Can Youth Be National Socialist? The Führer of Elementary-School Children Adapted from BALDUR VON SCHIRACH From the Oak Tree to Certain Victory The Sun as a Symbol of Dedicated Youth A Flight Through the Storm and Hitler's Mission Essays with Right Answers The Hitler Youth The Development of the SS Man The Renovation of the Academic Community Work Is Future Admission to the Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Berlin New Courses for a New Reich The Nature of Academic Freedom Jewish Graduates Are Numbers, Not Persons 9 What Is the State and Who Are Its Citizens? Public Law in a New Context Civil Rights and the Natural Inequality of Man The Reich Citizenship Law The Jew Is Outside the Law Anchoring the Civil Service in the Nation 10 Workers and Shopkeepers 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” Müller 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 The Changed Tempo of Life: The City of Heme The Nazis Take Over Cologne Little Things Create Pressures Vanishing Friends 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 an illustration of everyday life in one of history's darkest eras and as a living memory that reminds us never to forget. "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, churchman, 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 an illustration of everyday life in one of history's darkest eras and as a living memory that reminds us never to forget."--Jacket 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 has recaptured the texture of life and thought using selections from newspapers, novellas, plays, and diaries as well as the public announcements of Nazi leaders, churchmen, and professors to describe National Socialism in practice and what it meant for the average German. - Back cover.