Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany: An Introduction

   1. Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany: An Introduction

      • Pamela E. Swett, Corey Ross, Fabrice d’Almeida

      Pages 1-15

3. Consumption and the Privileges of Pleasure

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Driving, Shopping and Smoking: The Society for Consumer Research and the Politics of Pleasure in Nazi Germany

      • S. Jonathan Wiesen

      Pages 19-38

   3. Selling Sexual Pleasure in 1930s Germany

      • Pamela E. Swett

      Pages 39-66

   4. Luxury and Distinction under National Socialism

      • Fabrice d’Almeida

      Pages 67-83

4. Entertainments and the Aesthetics of Pleasure

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. The Structure of Aesthetic Pleasure in the Nazi Reception of Goethe’s Faust

      • David Pan

      Pages 87-106

   3. ‘German Humour’ in Books: The Attractiveness and Political Significance of Laughter during the Nazi Era

      • Patrick Merziger

      Pages 107-131

   4. Pleasure, Practicality and Propaganda: Popular Magazines in Nazi Germany, 1933–1939

      • Karl Christian Führer

      Pages 132-153

   5. Radio, Film and Morale: Wartime Entertainment between Mobilization and Distraction

      • Corey Ross

      Pages 154-174

5. The Pleasures of Community and Consensus

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Seeing the World: Photography, Photojournalism and Visual Pleasure in the Third Reich

      • Elizabeth Harvey

      Pages 177-204

   3. The Pleasures of being a ‘Political Soldier’: Nazi Functionaries and Their Service to the ‘Movement’

      • Daniel Mühlenfeld

      Pages 205-233

   4. The Pleasure of Terror: Belonging through Genocide

      • Thomas Kühne

      Pages 234-255

   5. The Pleasures of Opposition: Leisure, Solidarity and Resistance of a Life-Reform Group

      • Mark Roseman

      Pages 256-277

6. Back Matter

   Pages 278-307

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Although we associate the Third Reich above all with suffering, pain and fear, pleasure played a central role in its social and cultural dynamics. This book explores the relationship between the rationing of pleasures as a means of political stabilization and the pressure on the Nazi regime to cater to popular cultural expectations.

• consumption
• empire
• Genocide
• Germany
• National Socialism
• politics
• Privileg
• reform
• Third Reich

"Using "pleasure" as an analytical category, this book makes a significant contribution to the history of the Third Reich by giving us a new angle by which to approach it...Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany is a clever, thought-provoking book that has much to teach anyone interested in the Third Reich or the histories of emotion and culture in general." - Mark B. Cole, H-German

• McMaster University, Canada

  Pamela E. Swett

• University of Birmingham, UK

  Corey Ross

• Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), France

  Fabrice d’Almeida

FABRICE D'ALMEIDA Professor of Contemporary History, University Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2), France KARL CHRISTIAN FÜHRER Professor of History, University of Hamburg, Germany ELIZABETH HARVEY Professor of History, the University of Nottingham, UK THOMAS KÜHNE Strassler Professor of Holocaust History, Clark University, UK PATRICK MERZIGER Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, the Free University of Berlin, Germany DANIEL MÜHLENFELD Doctoral Student, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany DAVID PAN Associate Professor of German, the University of California, Irvine, USA MARK ROSEMAN Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History, Indiana University, USA COREY ROSS Professor of Modern History, University of Birmingham, UK PAMELA E. SWETT Associate Professor of History, McMaster University, Canada S. JONATHAN WIESEN Associate Professor of Modern European History, Southern Illinois University, USA

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