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Las Juventudes Hitlerianas

Autor: Michael H. Kater

Número de Páginas: 488

«Un excelente estudio sobre el intento nazi de adoctrinar a los jóvenes alemanes y una reflexión fundamental sobre los problemas de reconvertir a toda una generación a los valores de la democracia». Eric Hobsbawn Un análisis único y detallado sobre el significado y las consecuencias del adoctrinamiento de los jóvenes en la Alemania nazi y una dura advertencia sobre los peligros de la manipulación de los menores en ausencia de escrúpulos. Esta es la pieza que faltaba para la comprensión global del Tercer Reich. El régimen nazi encuadró en las Juventudes Hitlerianas a los jóvenes entre diez y dieciocho años, convirtiéndola en la mayor organización juvenil de la historia y en una enorme maquinaria de manipulación. El atractivo de las Juventudes Hitlerianas consistía en transformar las acampadas en entrenamientos paramilitares, las pistolas de aire en armas de fuego, las canciones infantiles en marchas militares, la educación en adoctrinamiento y, en definitiva, a los niños en nazis fanáticos. Como dijo el insigne historiador Eric Hobsbawn sobre este libro: «Un excelente estudio sobre el intento nazi de adoctrinar a los jóvenes alemanes y una reflexión...

Culture in Nazi Germany

Autor: Michael H. Kater

Número de Páginas: 389

“A much-needed study of the aesthetics and cultural mores of the Third Reich . . . rich in detail and documentation.” (Kirkus Reviews) Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler’s enemies. During the war, the arts were closely tied to the propaganda machine that promoted the cause of Germany’s military campaigns. Michael H. Kater’s engaging and deeply researched account of artistic culture within Nazi Germany considers how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed when the Nazis came to power. With a broad purview that ranges widely across music, literature, film, theater, the press, and visual arts, Kater details the struggle between creative autonomy and political control as he looks at what became of German artists and their work both during and subsequent to Nazi rule. “Absorbing, chilling study of German artistic life under Hitler” —The Sunday Times “There is no greater authority on the culture of the Nazi period than Michael Kater, and his latest, most ambitious...

Hitler Youth

Autor: Michael H. Kater

Número de Páginas: 366

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 adolescents’ sense of obedience from home and school to the racially defined Volk and the Third Reich. Luring boys and girls into Hitler Youth ranks by offering them status, uniforms, and weekend hikes, the Nazis turned campgrounds into premilitary training sites, air guns into machine guns, sing-alongs into marching drills, instruction into indoctrination, and children into Nazis. A few resisted for personal or political reasons, but the overwhelming majority enlisted. Drawing on original reports, letters, diaries, and memoirs, Michael H. Kater traces the history of the Hitler Youth, examining the...

Doctors Under Hitler

Autor: Michael H. Kater

Número de Páginas: 441

"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 alike.--Isis In this history of medicine and the medical profession in the Third Reich, Michael Kater examines the career patterns, educational training, professional organization, and political socialization of German physicians under Hitler. His discussion ranges widely, from doctors who participated in Nazi atrocities, to those who actively resisted the regime's perversion of healing, to the vast majority whose ideology and behavior fell somewhere between the two extremes. He also takes a chilling look at the post-Hitler medical establishment's problematic relationship to the Nazi past. -->

El mito de la guerra buena : EEUU en la segunda guerra mundial

Autor: Jacques Pauwels

Número de Páginas: 357

After the Nazis

Autor: Michael H. Kater

Número de Páginas: 552

A wide-ranging, insightful history of culture in West Germany—from literature, film, and music to theater and the visual arts After World War II a mood of despair and impotence pervaded the arts in West Germany. The culture and institutions of the Third Reich were abruptly dismissed, yet there was no immediate return to the Weimar period’s progressive ideals. In this moment of cultural stasis, how could West Germany’s artists free themselves from their experiences of Nazism? Moving from 1945 to reunification, Michael H. Kater explores West German culture as it emerged from the darkness of the Third Reich. Examining periods of denial and complacency as well as attempts to reckon with the past, he shows how all postwar culture was touched by the vestiges of National Socialism. From the literature of Günter Grass to the happenings of Joseph Beuys and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s innovations in electronic music, Kater shows how it was only through the reinvigoration of the cultural scene that West Germany could contend with its past—and eventually allow democracy to reemerge.

The Twisted Muse

Autor: Michael H. Kater

Número de Páginas: 344

Is music removed from politics? To what ends, beneficent or malevolent, can music and musicians be put? In short, when human rights are grossly abused and politics turned to fascist demagoguery, can art and artists be innocent? These questions and their implications are explored in Michael Kater's broad survey of musicians and the music they composed and performed during the Third Reich. Great and small--from Valentin Grimm, a struggling clarinetist, to Richard Strauss, renowned composer--are examined by Kater, sometimes in intimate detail, and the lives and decisions of Nazi Germany's professional musicians are laid out before the reader. Kater tackles the issue of whether the Nazi regime, because it held music in crassly utilitarian regard, acted on musicians in such a way as to consolidate or atomize the profession. Kater's examination of the value of music for the regime and the degree to which the regime attained a positive propaganda and palliative effect through the manner in which it manipulated its musicians, and by extension, German music, is of importance for understanding culture in totalitarian systems. This work, with its emphasis on the social and political nature...

El Reich sagrado

Autor: Richard Steigmann-gall

Número de Páginas: 353

Brillante y polémico, este excepcional estudio de Richard Steigmann-Gall analiza las hasta ahora inexploradas perspectivas religiosas de la elite nazi, afirmando que el movimiento nazi, contrariamente a la opinión convencional, no fue anticristiano y mucho menos ateísta. Asimismo, demuestra que muchos nazis sentían un vínculo personal con el cristianismo y declaraban que su ideología de antisemitismo, antimarxismo y antiliberalismo se inspiraba en valores cristianos. Su examen se centra en el concepto de «cristianismo positivo», una religión que apoyaban numerosos miembros de la cúpula del partido. También explora la lucha que éstos sostuvieron contra los paganistas del partido —quienes rechazaban el cristianismo en su globalidad por considerarlo extranjero y corruptor— y demuestra que no sólo se trató de un conflicto sobre religión, sino sobre el propio significado de la ideología nazi.

Symphonic Aspirations

Autor: Karen Painter

Número de Páginas: 374

Can music be political? Germans have long claimed the symphony as a pillar of their modern national culture. By 1900, the critical discourse on music, particularly symphonies, rose to such prominence as to command front-page news. With the embrace of the Great War, the humiliation of defeat, and the ensuing economic turmoil, music evolved from the most abstract to the most political of the arts. Even Goebbels saw the symphony as a tool of propaganda. More than composers or musicians, critics were responsible for this politicization of music, aspiring to change how music was heard and understood. Once hailed as a source of individual heroism, the symphony came to serve a communal vision. Karen Painter examines the politicization of musical listening in Germany and Austria, showing how nationalism, anti-Semitism, liberalism, and socialism profoundly affected the experience of serious music. Her analysis draws on a vast collection of writings on the symphony, particularly those of Mahler and Bruckner, to offer compelling evidence that music can and did serve ideological ends. She traces changes in critical discourse that reflected but also contributed to the historical conditions of...

La cultura en la Alemania nazi

Autor: Michael H. Kater

Número de Páginas: 637

En enero de 1930, tres años antes de que Hitler llegara al poder, los nazis ganaron elecciones locales en Turingia y, bajo ese manto de legalidad, iniciaron una purga en el ámbito cultural: prohibieron el teatro expresionista, la música atonal y el jazz, la asistencia a cabarets; retiraron de los museos obras vanguardistas, como las de Klee y Kandinski; censuraron películas que tenían un toque de erotismo. ¿Qué les resultaba tan amenazante en la Bauhaus y en otras corrientes que habían florecido en las primeras décadas del siglo, o en la prensa marxista y anarquista? ¿Por qué hablaban de "arte degenerado", contrario al "espíritu germánico"? ¿Existía un establishment cultural judío que había que desmantelar? Primer trabajo integral sobre la cultura alemana bajo la dictadura de Hitler, este libro cuenta cómo se incubó la ideología nacionalsocialista y con qué procedimientos el régimen instalado en 1933 arrasó el pluralismo para erigir una estética totalitaria de propaganda y control en función de los objetivos prioritarios: la aniquilación de los judíos y la expansión territorial. Respaldado en un gigantesco caudal de documentación, entrevistas e incluso ...

Hitler's Followers (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)

Autor: Detlef Muhlberger

Número de Páginas: 248

When originally published in 1991, this book was the first systematic, detailed evaluation of the social structure of the Nazi Party in several regions of Germany during its so-called Kampfzeit phase. Based on extensive archival material, much of it left untouched since the end of the war until Detlef Mühlberger uncovered it, the book demonstrates that the Nazi Party and its major auxiliaries, the SA and the SS mobilized support which was remarkably heterogeneous in social terms. The author reveals that in addition to followers from the middle and upper social classes the Nazi Party enjoyed strong support among the lower class and it was indeed, as it claimed to be a people’s party, or Volkspartei.

Art of Suppression

Autor: Pamela M. Potter

Número de Páginas: 408

This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis’ total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and their works thrived under Hitler. To answer this question, Pamela M. Potter investigates how historians since 1945 have written about music, art, architecture, theater, film, and dance in Nazi Germany and how their accounts have been colored by politics of the Cold War, the fall of communism, and the wish to preserve the idea that true art and politics cannot mix. Potter maintains that although the persecution of Jewish artists and other “enemies of the state” was a high priority for the Third Reich, removing them from German cultural life did not eradicate their artistic legacies. Art of Suppression examines the cultural histories of Nazi Germany to help us understand how the circumstances of exile, the Allied occupation, the Cold War, and the complex meanings of modernism have sustained a distorted and problematic characterization of cultural life during the Third Reich.

Silence, Scapegoats, Self-reflection

Autor: Volker Roelcke , Sascha Topp , Etienne Lepicard

Número de Páginas: 380

Since the end of World War II, Nazi medical atrocities have been a topic of ambivalent reactions and debates, both in Germany and internationally: An early period of silence was followed by attempts of victims and representatives of medical organisations to describe what happened. Varying narratives developed, some of which had a stabilizing function for the identity of the profession, whereas others had a critical and de-stabilizing function. In today's international debates in the field of medical ethics, there are frequent references to Nazi medical atrocities, in particular in the context of discussions about research on human subjects, and on euthanasia. The volume analyses the narratives on Nazi medical atrocities, their historicity in different stages of post-war medicine, as well as in the international discourse on biomedical ethics.

Hitler and Nazi Germany

Autor: Jackson J. Spielvogel , David Redles

Número de Páginas: 384

Hitler and Nazi Germany: A History is a brief but comprehensive survey of the Third Reich based on current research findings that provides a balanced approach to the study of Hitler’s role in the history of the Third Reich. The book considers the economic, social, and political forces that made possible the rise and development of Nazism; the institutional, cultural, and social life of the Third Reich; World War II; and the Holocaust. World War II and the Holocaust are presented as logical outcomes of the ideology of Hitler and the Nazi movement. This new edition contains more information on the Kaiserreich (Imperial Germany), as well as Nazi complicity in the Reichstag Fire and increased discussion of consent and dissent during the Nazi attempt to create the ideal Volksgemeinschaft (people’s community). It takes a greater focus on the experiences of ordinary bystanders, perpetrators, and victims throughout the text, includes more discussion of race and space, and the final chapter has been completely revised. Fully updated, the book ensures that students gain a complete and thorough picture of the period and issues. Supported by maps, images, and thoroughly updated...

Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

Autor: Ian Kershaw

Número de Páginas: 400

This volume presents a comprehensive, multifaceted picture both of the destructive dynamic of the Nazi leadership and of the attitudes and behavior of ordinary Germans as the persecution of the Jews spiraled into total genocide.

The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture

Autor: Benjamin G. Martin

Número de Páginas: 381

Following France’s defeat, the Nazis moved forward with plans to reorganize a European continent now largely under Hitler’s heel. Some Nazi elites argued for a pan-European cultural empire to crown Hitler’s conquests. Benjamin Martin charts the rise and fall of Nazi-fascist soft power and brings into focus a neglected aspect of Axis geopolitics.

Huit portraits de compositeurs sous le nazisme

Autor: Michael H. Kater

Número de Páginas: 447

Dans ce livre qui complète une série d'études menées sur la culture durant l'époque nazie, l'historien Michael Kater suit le parcours de huit compositeurs très différents les uns des autres, auscultant le comportement d'artistes qui avaient déjà, au moment de l'avènement de Hitler en 1933, une réputation dans la sphère musicale allemande et internationale. Son étude minutieuse, qui s'appuie sur une documentation en partie inédite, d'une exceptionnelle richesse, suit la trajectoire de personnalités qui choisirent ou bien la collaboration et l'opportunisme, ou bien la résistance et l'exil. Dans la première catégorie, les deux compositeurs postromantiques, Strauss et Pfitzner, s'accommodèrent du pouvoir nazi au nom de la grande tradition germanique ; Hindemith partageait cette position, mais le modernisme qu'il avait incarné sous la République de Weimar suscitait un rejet qui le contraignit finalement à l'exil. Orff et Egk saisirent l'occasion de faire carrière et de représenter la nouvelle Allemagne par leurs œuvres et leur activité. À l'opposé, Schoenberg et Weill, qui étaient juifs, prirent immédiatement le chemin de l'exil. Hartmann, enfin, cessa de...

Nazi Germany

Autor: Harald Kleinschmidt

Número de Páginas: 881

The volume reproduces a set of recently-published articles demonstrating the embeddedness of Nazi genocide and other crimes against humanity in a German society that was haunted by practices of denunciation. Far from being an inexplicable invasion of evil into otherwise sound German society, the genocide and other crimes against humanity were committed not merely by members of SS organizations but by common people, civilians and military men alike, within Germany as well as in occupied territories, during the late 1930s and World War II. Although analyzing the past, the book also seeks contribute to current debates on the causes of genocide and other crimes against humanity.

Composers of the Nazi Era

Autor: Michael H. Kater

Número de Páginas: 414

How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism? How can a highly artistic individual function professionally in so threatening a climate? The final book in a critically acclaimed trilogy that includes Different Drummers (OUP 1992) and The Twisted Muse (OUP 1997), this is a detailed study of the often interrelated careers of eight outstanding German composers who lived and worked amid the dictatorship of the Third Reich: Werner Egk, Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Carl Orff, Hans Pfitzner, Arnold Schoenberg, and Richard Strauss. Noted historian Michael H. Kater weighs issues of accommodation and resistance to ask whether these artists corrupted themselves in the service of a criminal regime -- and if so, whether this is evident in their music. He also considers the degrees to which the Nazis poetically, socially, economically, and aesthetically succeeded in their treatment of these individuals, whose lives and compositions represent diverse responses to totalitarianism.

The Formation of the Nazi Constituency 1919-1933 (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)

Autor: Thomas Childers

Número de Páginas: 274

In the years preceding publication of this book in 1986 much progress was made in identifying the social sources of support for Hitler’s NSDAP and in determining the tactics employed by the party to mobilise its constituency at grass roots level. It has emerged that the Nazi’s roots were far more diverse than previously assumed, extending beyond the lower middle class to encompass both the affluent bourgeoisie and the working class. This book collects together original studies which represent a distillation of some of the contemporaneous research.

Medicine and Modernity

Autor: Manfred Berg , Geoffrey Cocks

Número de Páginas: 258

This collection of essays addresses, in a comprehensive and critical fashion, fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany. The essays also investigate important continuities and discontinuities in German history, and between Germany and the West. The central focus is on the professionalisation of modern medicine and the medicalisation of modern society. The problem of Nazi Germany is addressed in many of the essays, partly because of its influence on the debate over the nature of modern German government and society in relation to Western social, political, and economic development. Other topics include: the place of hospitals in the early nineteenth century, various forms of Social Darwinism, the politics of state-run health insurance, the influence of eugenics, social control and 'shell shock' in World War I, sterilization and euthanasia, Nazi experimentation, the abortion debate, and the role of former Nazis in the postwar medical leadership.

The Arts in Nazi Germany

Autor: Jonathan Huener , Francis R. Nicosia

Número de Páginas: 235

"Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945 ... This volume's essays explore these and other aspects of the arts and cultural life under National Socialism ..."--Cover.

Music and Ideology

Autor: Mark Carroll

Número de Páginas: 615

This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the service of political, nationalist and racial ideologies. Arranged chronologically according to their subject matter, the selections cover Western and non-Western musics, as well as art and popular musics, from the eighteenth century to the present day. The introduction features detailed commentaries on sources beyond those included in the volume, and as such provides an invaluable and comprehensive reading list for researchers and educators alike. The volume brings together for the first time seminal articles written by leading scholars, and presents them in such a way as to contribute significantly to our understanding of the use and abuse of music for ideological ends.

The Jazz War

Autor: Will Studdert

Número de Páginas: 260

During World War II, jazz embodied everything that was appealing about a democratic society as envisioned by the Western Allied powers. Labelled `degenerate' by Hitler's cultural apparatus, jazz was adopted by the Allies to win the hearts and minds of the German public. It was also used by the Nazi Minister for Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, to deliver a message of Nazi cultural and military superiority. When Goebbels co-opted young German and foreign musicians into `Charlie and his Orchestra' and broadcast their anti-Allied lyrics across the English Channel, jazz took centre stage in the propaganda war that accompanied World War II on the ground. The Jazz War is based on the largely unheard oral testimony of the personalities behind the German and British wartime radio broadcasts, and chronicles the evolving relationship between jazz music and the Axis and Allied war e orts. Studdert shows how jazz both helped and hindered the Allied cause as Nazi soldiers secretly tuned in to British radio shows while London party-goers danced the night away in demimonde `bottle parties', leading them to be branded a `menace' in Parliament. This book will appeal to students of the history of jazz, ...

Studies in Contemporary Jewry: VI: Art and Its Uses

Autor: Ezra Mendelsohn , Richard I. Cohen

Número de Páginas: 433

The sixth volume of the annual publication of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Art and Its Uses analyzes the levels of meaning present in a wide range of visual images, from high art by Jewish artists to Judaica, caricatures, and political propaganda. The use of such material to illuminate aspects of modern history and society is rather uncommon in the field of modern Jewish studies; these essays provide the tools necessary for understanding the image in its proper social and political context. The distinguished contributors include Richard I. Cohen, Michael Berkowitz, Milly Heyd, Irit Rogoff, Chone Shmeruk, Ziva Amishai-Maisels, Vivianne Barsky, and Vivian Mann. Accompanied by more than 160 illustrations, the essays shed new light on such topics as Jewish nationalism, Jewish identity, and Jewish-gentile relations. In addition to the symposium, the volume contains articles by major scholars of contemporary Jewish studies, a substantial book review section, and a list of recent dissertations in the field.

The Nazi Dictatorship

Autor: Ian Kershaw

Número de Páginas: 351

'Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich.' - International History Review Sir Ian Kershaw is regarded by many as the world's leading authority on Hitler and the Third Reich. Known for his clear and accessible style when dealing with complex historical issues his work has redefined the way we look at this period modern European history. The Nazi Dictatorship is Kershaw's landmark study of the Third Reich. It covers the major themes and debates relating to Nazism including the Holocaust, Hitler's authority and leadership, Nazi Foreign Policy and the aftermath, including issues surrounding Germany's unification. The Revelations edition includes a new preface from the author.

An Interrupted Past

Autor: Hartmut Lehmann , James J. Sheehan

Número de Páginas: 252

The essays in An Interrupted Past describe the fate of those German-speaking historians who fled from Nazi Europe to the United States. Their story is set into several contexts: the traditional relationship between German and American historiography, the evolution of the German historical profession in the twentieth century, the onset of Nazi persecution after 1933, the special situation in Austria, and the difficulty of settling the refugees in their new homeland. In addition to articles on prominent scholars, there are accounts of the group as a whole, including information on more than ninety individuals, and of their family lives. An Interrupted Past is set in one of the darkest periods in human history, a time of political catastrophe and personal suffering. Yet the lives recorded here also illustrate people's capacity to survive, adjust, and create under difficult circumstances.

Culture in Nazi Germany

Autor: Michael H. Kater

Número de Páginas: 489

A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler's enemies. During the war, the arts were closely tied to the propaganda machine that promoted the cause of Germany's military campaigns. Michael H. Kater's engaging and deeply researched account of artistic culture within Nazi Germany considers how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed when the Nazis came to power. With a broad purview that ranges widely across music, literature, film, theater, the press, and visual arts, Kater details the struggle between creative autonomy and political control as he looks at what became of German artists and their work both during and subsequent to Nazi rule.

Different Drummers

Autor: Michael H. Kater

Número de Páginas: 324

For the architects of the third reich, jazz was an especially threatening form of expression, because of its essence: spontaneity, improvisation and individuality. Jazz survived persecution and became a powerful symbol of political disobedience and resistance in wartime Germany.

Weimar

Autor: Michael H. Kater

Número de Páginas: 497

Historian Michael H. Kater chronicles the rise and fall of one of Germany’s most iconic cities in this fascinating and surprisingly provocative history of Weimar. Weimar was a center of the arts during the Enlightenment and hence the cradle of German culture in modern times. Goethe and Schiller made their reputations here, as did Franz Liszt and the young Richard Strauss. In the early twentieth century, the Bauhaus school was founded in Weimar. But from the 1880s on, the city also nurtured a powerful right-wing reactionary movement, and fifty years later, a repressive National Socialist regime dimmed Weimar’s creative lights, transforming the onetime artists’ utopia into the capital of its first Nazified province and constructing the Buchenwald death camp on its doorstep. Kater’s richly detailed volume offers the first complete history of Weimar in any language, from its meteoric eighteenth-century rise up from obscurity through its glory days of unbridled creative expression to its dark descent back into artistic insignificance under Nazi rule and, later, Soviet occupation and beyond.

Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany

Autor: Francis R. Nicosia , Jonathan Huener

Número de Páginas: 176

The participation of German physicians in medical experiments on innocent people and mass murder is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Six distinguished historians working in this field are addressing the critical issues raised by these murderous experiments, such as the place of the Holocaust in the larger context of eugenic and racial research, the motivation and roles of the German medical establishment, and the impact and legacy of the eugenics movements and Nazi medical practice on physicians and medicine since World War II. Based on the authors' original scholarship, these essays offer an excellent and very accessible introduction to an important and controversial subject. They are also particularly relevant in light of current controversies over the nature and application of research in human genetics and biotechnology.

The People's Dictatorship

Autor: Alan E. Steinweis

Número de Páginas: 295

An up-to-date, succinct and highly readable survey of a compelling subject, making accessible classic and recent research on Nazi Germany.

Jazz & the Germans

Autor: Michael J. Budds

Número de Páginas: 236

Many commentators have observed that the influence of jazz and related popular musics on musical practice beyond American borders should be considered one of the most dynamic developments of the twentieth century. This collection of essays concentrates on American influences in Germany, where such unlikely "foreign" elements enjoyed a remarkable vogue for much of the past century, not only in the realm of popular culture but in the realm of the arts as well. Against the tumultuous social and political upheavals of modern Germany there evolved a fascinating musical sound track that introduced German musicians and their public to ragtime, spirituals, the blues, later dance music, and jazz with resulting opportunities for imitation and assimilation. In this volume American scholars from various academic perspectives are joined by German musician-scholars.

Opera After the Zero Hour

Autor: Emily Richmond Pollock

Número de Páginas: 313

'Opera After the Zero Hour' argues that newly composed opera in West Germany after World War II was a site for the renegotiation of musical traditions during an era in which tradition had become politically fraught.

Piazzolla. El mal entendido

Autor: Diego Fischerman , Abel Gilbert

Número de Páginas: 467

Piazzolla. El mal entendido es la biografía definitiva de uno de los compositores de tango más importantes del mundo. La vida y la obra de Astor Piazzolla transcurrieron entre su demonización y el asombrado reconocimiento. Fue el emblema sonoro de una ciudad que buscaba estar a tono con su tiempo y sus aspiraciones. A un siglo de su nacimiento, esta nueva edición de Piazzolla. El mal entendido recupera la trama artística, cultural y política que acompañó al bandoneonista desde su aparición fulgurante junto a Aníbal Troilo hasta su inserción internacional más allá del tango. El ensayo intenta ser un puente crítico de acercamiento a una música que no deja de abrirse a nuevos sentidos y reflexiones. "Este libro siempre ha tratado de ser un puente (uno más) con aquello que nos legó Piazzolla, un modo reflexivo de acercamiento a lo que, primero, llegó como una vibración: el aire de Buenos Aires en movimiento", dicen Fischerman y Gilbert.

The Law in Nazi Germany

Autor: Alan E. Steinweis , Robert D. Rachlin

Número de Páginas: 256

While we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship and its policies of persecution rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges, lawyers, and civil servants trained in the law. This volume offers a concise and compelling account of how these intelligent and welleducated legal professionals lent their skills and knowledge to a system of oppression and domination. The chapters address why German lawyers and jurists were attracted to Nazism; how their support of the regime resulted from a combination of ideological conviction, careerist opportunism, and legalistic selfdelusion; and whether they were held accountable for their Nazi-era actions after 1945. This book also examines the experiences of Jewish lawyers who fell victim to anti-Semitic measures. The volume will appeal to scholars, students, and other readers with an interest in Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and the history of jurisprudence.

Hitler's Willing Executioners

Autor: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Número de Páginas: 656

This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion. "Hitler's Willing Executioner's is an original, indeed brilliant ...

The Global Politics of Jazz in the Twentieth Century

Autor: Yoshiomi Saito

Número de Páginas: 194

From the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, jazz was harnessed as America’s "sonic weapon" to promote an image to the world of a free and democratic America. Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and other well-known jazz musicians were sent around the world – including to an array of Communist countries – as "jazz ambassadors" in order to mitigate the negative image associated with domestic racial problems. While many non-Americans embraced the Americanism behind this jazz diplomacy without question, others criticized American domestic and foreign policies while still appreciating jazz – thus jazz, despite its popularity, also became a medium for expressing anti-Americanism. This book examines the development of jazz outside America, including across diverse historical periods and geographies – shedding light on the effectiveness of jazz as an instrument of state power within a global political context. Saito examines jazz across a wide range of regions, including America, Europe, Japan and Communist countries. His research also draws heavily upon a variety of sources, primary as well as secondary, which are accessible in these diverse countries: all had their unique...

Los verdugos voluntarios de Hitler

Autor: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Número de Páginas: 804

Una obra escrita con rigor y minucia; una verdadera revisión, a la contra, del más terrible suceso de nuestro siglo: el intento de exterminio de toda una raza, la judía, por parte de los nazis. ¿O podría decirse, y esta es la gran cuestión del libro, de los nazis y el pueblo alemán? Gran éxito internacional, sometido a durísimas polémicas, este libro aporta un nuevo modo de entender el Holocausto. Basándose en pruebas nuevas e inquietantes, Goldhagen prueba que el antisemitismo estaba profundamente enraizado en la sociedad alemana, donde era común la noción de que había que eliminar a los judíos. Así se explicaría que a Hitler no le fuera difícil enrolar un gran número de alemanes en «la solución final».

Hitler's Enforcers

Autor: George C. Browder

Número de Páginas: 379

This first socio-organizational history of the Gestapo, the SD, and the regular detectives of the Third Reich, 1932-1937, this book explores the roots of their roles in police terror and programs of mass murder. These personnel helped to form the character and missions of their organizations, which were not simply created from above by Hitler, Himmler, or Heydrich. Hitler's Enforcers is based on research at 34 archives in Germany and the United States, including the personnel files of over 1,000 former members, and is the first such study to benefit from the German documents captured by the Soviets and Poles and kept secret until recently.