Nazi-Organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich
Julia Timpe
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Hardback. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme. Shortly after coming to power in Germany, it began a large-scale undertaking to bring happiness and a good life to so-called 'Aryan' Germans, carried out by the Nazi leisure organization Kraft durch Freude. Julia Timpe traces Kraft durch Freude's practices and propaganda from 1933 through the Second World War, and analyses Nazi-organized sports classes, entertainment events, and beautification campaigns for industrial sites and the countryside, as well as Kraft durch Freude's activities in entertaining German soldiers and concentration camp guards. Contributing to newer scholarship which focuses on the ... Read more
This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme. Shortly after coming to power in Germany, it began a large-scale undertaking to bring happiness and a good life to so-called 'Aryan' Germans, carried out by the Nazi leisure organization Kraft durch Freude. Julia Timpe traces Kraft durch Freude's practices and propaganda from 1933 through the Second World War, and analyses Nazi-organized sports classes, entertainment events, and beautification campaigns for industrial sites and the countryside, as well as Kraft durch Freude's activities in entertaining German soldiers and concentration camp guards. Contributing to newer scholarship which focuses on the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Series
The Holocaust and its Contexts
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137531926
SKU
V9781137531926
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About Julia Timpe
Julia Timpe is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Bremen and also teaches at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. She has served as a College Fellow and Lecturer at Harvard University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Museum.
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