The Author: W. Scott Hoerle received his B.A. from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Modern German History at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 2001. A specialist in the literary and musical history of Germany, as well as an accomplished classical pianist, he is presently a Visiting Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell.

• Contents: National Socialism and literature – Official Nazi literary policy – Provincial traditions and National Socialism – Lower Germany and National Socialism – Germanic traditions and National Socialism – Nordic literature – «Authoritarian democracy» – Völkisch literature – «Blood and Earth» literature – Neo-Romanticism – Nazi propaganda – Writers’ unions and National Socialism – Cultural aspects of Nazi diplomacy and foreign policy.

The Author: W. Scott Hoerle received his B.A. from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Modern German History at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 2001. A specialist in the literary and musical history of Germany, as well as an accomplished classical pianist, he is presently a Visiting Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell.

• Contents: National Socialism and literature – Official Nazi literary policy – Provincial traditions and National Socialism – Lower Germany and National Socialism – Germanic traditions and National Socialism – Nordic literature – «Authoritarian democracy» – Völkisch literature – «Blood and Earth» literature – Neo-Romanticism – Nazi propaganda – Writers’ unions and National Socialism – Cultural aspects of Nazi diplomacy and foreign policy.

The Author: W. Scott Hoerle received his B.A. from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Modern German History at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 2001. A specialist in the literary and musical history of Germany, as well as an accomplished classical pianist, he is presently a Visiting Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell.

• Contents: National Socialism and literature – Official Nazi literary policy – Provincial traditions and National Socialism – Lower Germany and National Socialism – Germanic traditions and National Socialism – Nordic literature – «Authoritarian democracy» – Völkisch literature – «Blood and Earth» literature – Neo-Romanticism – Nazi propaganda – Writers’ unions and National Socialism – Cultural aspects of Nazi diplomacy and foreign policy.