Jay W Baird

Hitler's War Poets

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Produktbeschreibung

Jay W. Baird demonstrates how poets and writers responded enthusiastically to Hitler's summons to artists to create a cultural revolution commensurate with the political radicalism of the new state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780521145633
• ISBN-10: 0521145635
• Artikelnr.: 26572482

Autorenporträt

Jay W. Baird is Professor of History Emeritus at Miami University in Ohio. He has also taught at Stanford University and Pomona College, and was a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge in 1997 and 2004. His previous books include To Die For Germany (1990); The Mythical World of Nazi War Propaganda, 1939-1945 (1977); and the edited volume From Nuremberg to My Lai (1974). He served as president of the German Studies Association from 1993-1995, and was recognized by the Holocaust Educational Foundation for distinguished contributions to Holocaust education in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Heroic imagery in the literature of the Third Reich
2. Rudolf G. Binding and the memory of the Great War
3. The Great War and literary reaction: Josef Magnus Wehner and the dream of a new Reich
4. Hans Zöberlein: the heritage of the front as Third Reich prophecy
5. Edwin Erich Dwinger: Germany's iconic literary anti-Bolshevik
6. Hitler's muse: the political aesthetics of the poet and playwright Eberhard Wolfgang Möller
7. The testament of Zarathustra: Kurt Eggers and the SS ideal
Epilogue.