Culture in Nazi Germany

It was my longtime interest in social realism and heroic realism in Germany and Soviet Russia between the wars that brought me to this book, and although its focus was much more on the history than the painting, sculpture and architecture, it didn’t wholly disappoint. There was much of interest in i......more

Having wrapped up this work, I come away with the sense that a better name would be "The Purge," in that the purge of modernist and "Jewish" currents from Nazi Germany, and the organizational fight to control those processes, is what Kater is mostly writing about. As for Nazi culture creation, there......more

NetGalley has provided this reviewer with an advance copy for review. Michael H. Kater's history of culture before, during, and after the Third Reich is neither overly academic or limited to popular culture. I found myself reading, not skimming, Kater's book about those who suffered at the hands of N......more

This was an interesting book, but I found its writing style overly dry and arduous; lacking a coherent narrative and structure. Although the book is divided into a half-dozen or so chapters, the writing consists mostly of the author machine-gunning dozens of names at the reader; some famous, and oth......more