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Hitler's War Poets - Literature and Politics in the Third Reich (Hardcover)
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Hitler's War Poets - Literature and Politics in the Third Reich (Hardcover)
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Jay W. Baird comes to grips with a theme which has been generally
avoided by over two generations of scholars and literary critics.
He argues that German literature did not end with the advent of
Hitler in 1933, only to be reborn after the fall of the Third Reich
in 1945. 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, thereby affirming the centrality of renewed German
culture. Hitler's War Poets focuses on the lives and the works of
six leading conservative, anti-communist yet revolutionary authors
who articulated the dream of World War I veterans to form a
socially just national community. Tradition was redrawn by Rudolf
G. Binding, while Josef Magnus Wehner dramatized the link from
Flanders fields and Verdun to the Third Reich. Hans Zoeberlein
exalted anti-Semitism, the Free Corps, and Nazi violence, providing
the counterpoint to Edwin Erich Dwinger, who launched an
unrelenting assault against 'Jewish-Bolshevism'. The torch was
passed to Eberhard Wolfgang Moeller, the leading bard of the
revolutionary young generation. But it was Kurt Eggers, a tank
commander in the 5th SS Panzer Division 'Viking', who delighted
Hitler as he appeared as a prophet bearing the testament of
Nietzsche's Zarathustra. Taken together, these authors offered the
regime significant support. More importantly, their's was a tragic
legacy because they provided aesthetic accompaniment to Nazi
barbarism and ultimately to the Holocaust.
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