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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821601203321

Autore

Usbeck Frank

Titolo

Fellow tribesmen : the image of native Americans, national identity, and Nazi ideology in Germany / / Frank Usbeck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 252 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in German History ; ; v.19

Disciplina

305.897

305.897043

Soggetti

National characteristics, German - History - 20th century - Germany

Nationalism - History - 20th century - Germany

Indians in popular culture - History - 20th century - Germany

Indians of North America - Public opinion - 20th Century - Germany

National socialism - Philosophy - 20th century

Race - Philosophy

Popular culture - History

Public opinion - History

Germany Politics and government 1933-1945

Germany Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 - The Image of Indians in German Romanticism and Emerging Nationalism; Chapter 2 - Nation-Formation, National Identity, and Nationalism; Chapter 3 - Relatives, Allies, or Subjects? Applications of Nazi Ideology through Indian Imagery in Popular Media and Academia; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. This book explores the evolution of German national identity and its relationship with the ideas and cultural practices around 'Indianthusiasm.'  Pervasive and adaptable, imagery of Native Americans was appropriated by Nazi propaganda and merged with



exceptionalist notions of German tribalism, oxymoronically promoting the Nazis' racial ideology. This book combines cultural and intellectual history to scrutinize the motifs of Native American imagery in German literature, media, and scholarship, and analyzes how these motifs facilitated the propaganda effort to nurture national pride, racial thought, militarism, and hatred against the Allied powers among the German populace"--Provided by publisher.