Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany

From 1933 to 1945, the Reich Chamber of Culture exercised a profound influence over German artists and entertainers. This study examines the Nazi cultural administration and the patterns of interaction among leading Nazi figures, cultural functionaries, ordinary artists and consumers of culture.

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From 1933 to 1945, the Reich Chamber of Culture exercised a profound influence over hundreds of thousands of German artists and entertainers. Alan Steinweis focuses on the fields of music, theatre and the visual arts in this study of Nazi cultural administration, examining a complex pattern of interaction among leading Nazi figures, German cultural functionaries, ordinary artists, and consumers of culture. Steinweis gives special attention to Nazi efforts to purge the arts of Jews and other so-called undesirables.