Audiences of Nazism

Ulrike Weckel is Professor of History in the Media and the Public at the Justus Liebig University Giessen. Her research interests include postwar dealings with Germany’s Nazi past, gender history, media history, and audience reception. She is the author of Beschämende Bilder. Deutsche Reaktionen auf alliierte Dokumentarfilme über befreite Konzentrationslager (Stuttgart 2012) and has analyzed audience responses to representa­tions of the Nazi past in various feature films and radio and theater plays.

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: Media and Their Users in Nazi Germany

Ulrike Weckel



Chapter 1. “To Constantly Swim against the Tide Is Suicide”: The Liberal Press and Its Audience, 1928–1933

Jochen Hung



Chapter 2. Active Audiences: Stürmerkästen and the Rise of Der Stürmer’s Activist Readership

Hannah Ahlheim



Chapter 3. Reading Fake News: The “Röhm Putsch,”: The Hitler Myth and the Consumption of Political News under the Nazis

Janosch Steuwer



Chapter 4. Beyond Approved Reactions: Assessments of the NSDAP’s Nuremberg Party Rallies in Diaries and Letters, 1933–1938

Annina Hofferberth



Chapter 5. Call and Response: The Creation of the National Socialist Public

Peter Fritzsche



Chapter 6. Advertising and Its Audiences in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Pamela Swett



Chapter 7. Concert Programs, Ideology, and the Search for Subjectivity in National Socialist Germany

Neil Gregor



Chapter 8. The “Entartete Kunst”: Exhibitions and Their Audiences

Bernhard Fulda



Chapter 9. Amateur Films from National Socialist Austria as Visual Responses to Nazi Propaganda

Michaela Scharf 



Chapter 10. The Media of Occupation: German Books and Photographs in France, 1940–1944

Julia Torrie



Chapter 11. The Migration of Topoi from Atrocity Films to Their Heirs: Modes of Addressing the Audience in German Post-War Cinema

Bernhard Gross



Chapter 12. Finding an Unintended Audience: An SS Photo Album and Its Post-War Editions

Ulrike Koppermann



Afterword

Jane Caplan