1st Edition

German Literature under National Socialism

By J. M. Ritchie Copyright 1983
340 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1983, this study starts with an exploration of proto-Nazi literature in the early 20 th Century and pursues later developments up to the arrival of fully-fledged National Socialism. Not only literature within Germany is covered; after 1933 republican writers forced into exile for racial as well as political reasons rejected the anti-Semitic ‘barbarism’ of National... Read more

Part 1: 1914 – 1933 – Germany Sleeps 1. The Weimar Republic’s Secret Germany 2. The Making of a People 3. When I Hear ‘Culture’ I Reach for my Revolver Part 2: 1933-1945 – Inside Germany 4. Germany Awakens 5. Novels and Dramas in the Third Reich 6. Inner Emigration 7. Resistance Part 3: 1933-1945 – Outside Germany 8. The Spanish Civil War 9. Exile, the First Phase 10. Exile, the Second Phase 11. Theatre in Exile 12. Lyric and Song in Exile Part 4: 1945 and After 13. The Return From Exile

Biography

J. M. Ritchie was Head of the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Sheffield, U.K