Michael H. Kater

After the Nazis by Michael H. Kater is a wide-ranging, insightful history of culture in West Germany—from literature, film, and music to theatre and the visual arts. After World War II, a mood of despair and impotence pervaded the arts in West Germany. The culture and institutions of the Third Reich were abruptly dismissed, yet there was no immediate return...

A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instil a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler’s enemies. During the...