Artists for the Reich; culture and race from Weimar to Nazi Germany.1845202015 Artists for the Reich; culture and race from Weimar Weimar (vī`mär), city (1994 pop. 58,807), E Thuringia, central Germany, on the Ilm River. It is an industrial, transportation, and cultural center. Manufactures include agricultural machinery, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and furniture. to Nazi Germany. Clinefelter, Joan L. Berg Publishers 2005 182 pages $24.95 Paperback N6868 Little scholarly attention has been paid to the German Art Society, which was a group founded in 1920, and consisting of artists, writers, and right-wing activists who actively embraced Nazism. Clinefelder (history, U. of Northern Colorado) explains that these artists worked to preserve what they considered to be the German cultural tradition, and argues that they were instrumental in shaping Nazi cultural policies. He examines the Society's founder Bettina Feistel-Rohmeder, the origins of the Society, Weimar culture Weimar Republic refers to the years (1919-1933) in German history. Politically and economically, the nation struggled with the terms and reparations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles (1918) that ended World War I, and endured punishing levels of inflation. , National Socialism National Socialism or Nazism, doctrines and policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, which ruled Germany under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945. , and the German Art Society's role in the Third Reich Third Reich Official designation for the Nazi Party's regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945. The name reflects Adolf Hitler's conception of his expansionist regime—which he predicted would last 1,000 years—as the presumed successor of the Holy Roman . Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan. ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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