Nazi-Organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme. Shortly after coming to power in Germany, it began a large-scale undertaking to bring happiness and a good life to so-called 'Aryan' Germans, carried out by the Nazi leisure organization Kraft durch Freude. Julia Timpe traces Kraft durch Freude's practices and propaganda from 1933 through the Second World War, and analyses Nazi-organized sports classes, entertainment events, and beautification campaigns for industrial sites and the countryside, as well as Kraft durch Freude's activities in entertaining German soldiers and concentration camp guards. Contributing to newer scholarship which focuses on the integratory force of the Nazi promise of a unified 'racial community' of all 'Aryan' Germans, this book highlights that Kraft durch Freude's 'everyday production of joy' was central to Nazism, closely connected to the destructive side of the Third Reich, and ultimately a major reason for Nazism's success among the German population.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Holocaust and its Contexts
Release date:	March 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Julia Timpe
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	254
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-53192-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	1-137-53192-4
Barcode:	9781137531926

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