"Becoming a Nazi Town" reveals the ways in which ordinary
Germans changed their cultural lives and their politics from the
mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. Casting the origins of Nazism in a new
light, David Imhoof charts the process by which Weimar and Nazi
culture flowed into each other. He analyzes this dramatic
transition by looking closely at three examples of everyday
cultural life in the mid-sized German city of Gottingen:
sharpshooting, an opera festival, and cinema.
Imhoof draws on individual and community experiences over a
series of interwar periods to highlight and connect shifts in
culture, politics, and everyday life. He demonstrates how Nazi
leaders crafted cultural policies based in part on homegrown
cultural practices of the 1920s and argues that overdrawn
distinctions between "Weimar" and "Nazi" culture did not always
conform to most Germans' daily lives. Further, Imhoof presents
experiences in Gottingen as a reflection of the common reality of
many German towns beyond the capital city of Berlin.
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