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Oberammergau in the Nazi Era - The Fate of a Catholic Village in Hitler's Germany (Hardcover)
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Oberammergau in the Nazi Era - The Fate of a Catholic Village in Hitler's Germany (Hardcover)
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The Bavarian mountain village of Oberammergau is famous for its
decennial passion play. The play began as an articulation of the
villagers' strong Catholic piety, but in the late 19th and early
20th centuries developed into a considerable commercial enterprise.
The growth of the passion play from a curiosity of village piety
into a major tourist attraction encouraged all manner of
entrepreneurial behavior and brought the inhabitants of this
isolated rural area into close contract with a larger world.
Hundreds of thousands of tourists came to see the play, and
thousands of temporary workers descended on the village during the
play season, some settling permanently in Oberammergau. Adolf
Hitler would attend a performance of the play in 1934, later saying
that the drama "revealed the muck and mire of Jewry." But, Helena
Waddy argues, it is a mistake to brand Oberammergau as a Nazi
stronghold, as has commonly been done. In this book she uses
Oberammergau's unique history to explain why and how genuinely some
villagers chose to become Nazis, while others rejected Party
membership and defended their Catholic lifestyle. She explores the
reasons why both local Nazis and their opponents fought to protect
the village's cherished identity against the Third Reich's many
intrusive demands. On the other hand, she also shows that the play
mirrored the Gospel-based anti-Semitism endemic to Western culture.
As a local study of the rise of Nazism and the Nazi era, Waddy's
work is an important contribution to a growing genre. As a
collective biography, it is a fascinating and moving portrait of
life at a time when, as Thomas Mann wrote, "every day hurled the
wildest demands at the heart and brain."
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