Audiences of Nazism - Using Media in the Third Reich

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.'

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ulrike Weckel
• Assisted by: Ulrike Weckel (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781805390992
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-099-2
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: New German Historical Perspect; New German Historical Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Media Studies, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Social and cultural history, 1933–1945 (National Socialist period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), History: World War II;