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035    230261
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090    DD247.H5 |bM86 2012
100 1  Munn.
245 10 Hitler and the Nazi cult of celebrity. / |cMichael Munn.
264  1 London : |bRobson Press, |c2012.
300    ix, 288 pages ; |c24 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
520 8  Hitler's rise to power in Germany owed much to the creation of his own celebrity. Hitler believed he was an artist, not a politician, and in his Germany politics and culture became one. This celebrity was cultivated and nurtured by Joseph Goebbels, Germany's supreme head of culture. Hitler and Goebbels enjoyed the company of beautiful female film stars, and Goebbels had his own 'casting couch'. In Germany's version of Hollywood there were scandals, starlets and secret agents, premieres and party politics, and an actress who was the key to killing Hitler. In Nazi Germany, the cult of celebrity was the embodiment of Hitler's style of cultural governing. The country's greatest celebrities, whether they were actors, writers or musicians, could be one of only two things: if they were compliant they were lauded and awarded status symbols for the regime, but if they resisted or were simply Jewish they were traitors to be interned and murdered. This book is the account of Hitler's fantasy of power and stardom, of the correlation between art, weapons and ambition.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Hitler, Adolf, |d1889-1945.
650  0 National socialism and motion pictures.
650  0 Fame |xPolitical aspects |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century.
650  0 Nazis |xSexual behavior.
852 0   |bstacks |hDD247.H5 |iM86 2012