Victims and Victors: Art and Culture in Nazi Germany, the United States, and Postwar Europe

Abstract

Historical works on culture in the Nazi era in regions affected directly and indirectly by Nazi rule are becoming more common now, as interdisciplinary approaches are making headway. 1 This sort of research is currently being encouraged by the complete availability of Joseph Goebbels's diaries; much material is to be found here on the interconnections of art and politics, for Goebbels was, after all, minister of propaganda and culture. 2 The works reviewed here include a collection of essays dealing with various facets of culture in the Third Reich, as well as three monographs 1