Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Film and Fame

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Film, History & Criticism, Performing Arts, History, Germany
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Author: Michael Munn ISBN: 9781626362833
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Publication: May 9, 2013
Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing Language: English
Author: Michael Munn
ISBN: 9781626362833
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication: May 9, 2013
Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing
Language: English

A shocking look into the twisted, lurid world of Nazi Germany’s film industry.
 
In Nazi Germany, the cult of celebrity was the embodiment of Adolf Hitler’s style of cultural governance. Hitler’s rise to power owed much to the creation of his own celebrity, and the country’s greatest stars, 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 fascinating analysis offers a shocking portrait of a Hitler shaped by aspirations to Hollywood-style fame, of the correlation between art and ambition, of films used as weapons, and of sexual predilections.
 
The Führer believed he was an artist, not a politician, and in his Germany, politics and culture became one. His 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, secret agents, premieres, and party politics. The Third Reich would launch filmmaker and actress Leni Riefenstahl to prominence by making her its own glorifying documentarian, most famously in The Triumph of the Will, the innovative film starring Hitler and widely considered to be one of the greatest propaganda movies ever made. It is no coincidence that Eva Braun, Hitler’s longtime partner and wife for the two days leading up to their joint suicide, was a photographer, and in fact shot most of the surviving photographs and film footage of her lover.
 
In this “creepy yet compelling who’s-who of collaboration in the big-screen industry during the Nazi era,” film historian Michael Munn “offers a hard-driving study of Hitler’s music and film obsessions and the sacrifice of untold talent and youth to the murderous Nazi ideology” (Kirkus Reviews). Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Film and Fame also reveals previously unpublished information about the “Hitler film,” which Goebbels envisaged as “the greatest story ever told,” although it was ultimately trumped by the dictator’s own, real-life Wagnerian finale.
 

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A shocking look into the twisted, lurid world of Nazi Germany’s film industry.
 
In Nazi Germany, the cult of celebrity was the embodiment of Adolf Hitler’s style of cultural governance. Hitler’s rise to power owed much to the creation of his own celebrity, and the country’s greatest stars, 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 fascinating analysis offers a shocking portrait of a Hitler shaped by aspirations to Hollywood-style fame, of the correlation between art and ambition, of films used as weapons, and of sexual predilections.
 
The Führer believed he was an artist, not a politician, and in his Germany, politics and culture became one. His 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, secret agents, premieres, and party politics. The Third Reich would launch filmmaker and actress Leni Riefenstahl to prominence by making her its own glorifying documentarian, most famously in The Triumph of the Will, the innovative film starring Hitler and widely considered to be one of the greatest propaganda movies ever made. It is no coincidence that Eva Braun, Hitler’s longtime partner and wife for the two days leading up to their joint suicide, was a photographer, and in fact shot most of the surviving photographs and film footage of her lover.
 
In this “creepy yet compelling who’s-who of collaboration in the big-screen industry during the Nazi era,” film historian Michael Munn “offers a hard-driving study of Hitler’s music and film obsessions and the sacrifice of untold talent and youth to the murderous Nazi ideology” (Kirkus Reviews). Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Film and Fame also reveals previously unpublished information about the “Hitler film,” which Goebbels envisaged as “the greatest story ever told,” although it was ultimately trumped by the dictator’s own, real-life Wagnerian finale.
 

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