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Audiences of Nazism

Using Media in the Third Reich

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Through its focus on audiences and their reception of media in Nazi Germany, Audiences of Nazism inverts the typical top-down perspective employed in studies that concentrate on the regime’s regulation of media and propaganda. It thereby sheds new light on the complex character of the period’s media, their uses, and the scope for audience interpretation. Contributors investigate how consumers either appropriated or ignored certain messages of Nazi propaganda, and how some even participated in its production. The authors ground their studies on novel historical sources, including private diaries and letters, photographs and films, and concert programs, which demonstrate, amongst other things, how audiences interpreted and responded to regulated news, Nazi Party rallies, and the regime’s denunciation of modern works of art as ‘degenerate.’

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-15
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew German Historical Perspectives
Antal sidor302
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781807580711

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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.

List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Media and Their Users in Nazi GermanyUlrike WeckelChapter 1. “To Constantly Swim against the Tide Is Suicide”: The Liberal Press and Its Audience, 1928–1933Jochen HungChapter 2. Active Audiences: Stürmerkästen and the Rise of Der Stürmer’s Activist ReadershipHannah AhlheimChapter 3. Reading Fake News: The “Röhm Putsch,”: The Hitler Myth and the Consumption of Political News under the NazisJanosch SteuwerChapter 4. Beyond Approved Reactions: Assessments of the NSDAP’s Nuremberg Party Rallies in Diaries and Letters, 1933–1938Annina HofferberthChapter 5. Call and Response: The Creation of the National Socialist PublicPeter FritzscheChapter 6. Advertising and Its Audiences in Weimar and Nazi GermanyPamela SwettChapter 7. Concert Programs, Ideology, and the Search for Subjectivity in National Socialist GermanyNeil GregorChapter 8. The “Entartete Kunst”: Exhibitions and Their AudiencesBernhard FuldaChapter 9. Amateur Films from National Socialist Austria as Visual Responses to Nazi PropagandaMichaela Scharf Chapter 10. The Media of Occupation: German Books and Photographs in France, 1940–1944Julia TorrieChapter 11. The Migration of Topoi from Atrocity Films to Their Heirs: Modes of Addressing the Audience in German Post-War CinemaBernhard GrossChapter 12. Finding an Unintended Audience: An SS Photo Album and Its Post-War EditionsUlrike KoppermannAfterwordJane Caplan

“This is an excellent collection. Its clearly stated project is to revisit and revise existing historical accounts of media audiences and media consumption in Nazi Germany. The book presents a range of high calibre contributions, with much new and original research, and all offering innovative perspectives on the relation between media consumption, National Socialist political culture, and social and cultural life in Nazi Germany.” • Erica Carter, Kings College London