The Third Reich Sourcebook edited By Anson Rabinbach and Sander L. Gilman

Description: Appears to have gotten damp or wet is fully dried out but noticeable used. Preface The Third Reich Sourcebook offers English-language readers a broad range of texts, written or published during the twelve years that the National Socialist (Nazi) regime held sway in Germany, from its rise after World War I to the time it took power on 30 January 1933. This book is a companion volume to The Weimar Republic Sourcebook edited by Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg and published by the University of California Press in 1994. We have sought to provide a comprehensive collection of newly translated documents that offer insights into Nazi ideology, economics, politics, society, cultural policy, and influence in the fine arts and popular culture. Any responsible documentation of National Socialism must include explicit recognition that the "German Renaissance" promised by the Nazis culminated in unprecedented horror-World War II and the annihilation of European Jewry. This volume considers Nazi politics, ideology, and culture from that vantage point. Like The Weimar Republic Sourcebook, this collection seeks to present English-speaking undergraduates, graduate students, and general readers with a wide selection of primary sources that reflect the complex and often contradictory nature of German politics, society, and culture during this period of history. While some of the documents in this volume are well known and often cited, many of the texts have been recently excavated by historians and are translated and published here for the first time. In addition, many of those already in translation have been revised for a contemporary audience. To avoid replicating what has become a "canon" of Nazi texts, we were compelled to rethink what pieces would be most useful to scholars and students in the twenty-first century. The result is an archaeology of National Socialism emphasizing many arenas of thought and action in Nazi Germany hitherto underexamined. This volume thus contains speeches and texts of political leaders such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler, as well as texts by lesser-known commentators who contributed to the admittedly limited public dialogue about pivotal historical figures, such as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the composer Richard Wagner, or who wrote about major issues of the time, such as the meaning of sex, the soul, "social fitness," suicide, or modern art. The Third Reich Sourcebook documents how the Nazi leadership used ideas of racial pu-rity, the German people-the Volk -and the nation to judge not only works of art but indi- vidual human beings, whose fate often depended on an intertwined political and aesthetic vision. National Socialism relied heavily on visual imagery for its success, and the Sourcebook attempts to demonstrate how the visual culture (film, photography, newsreels, posters, adver-tisements, commercial art, illustrated magazines) of National Socialism reinforced its ideological and racial assumptions. Most difficult to understand in light of the ultimate crimes of the regime is the reality that Nazism's racial utopia was a plausible and compelling idea for a great many contemporaries. The embrace of Nazi ideology and practice for countless ordinary Germans did not result merely from political propaganda but also from the more subtle mixture of commercial entertainment and "soft" ideology purveyed by the propaganda machine created by Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels frequently noted that the most successful propaganda worked through stealth, concealing a subliminal message in the supposed normality and conventionality of the stereotypes and concepts promoted by the Nazis. Even commercial culture adopted the style of the regime by promoting tanning creams and blond hair dye for women, as well as politically "correct" fashions. In many respects, Nazi ideology was a mélange borrowed

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