The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European CultureFollowing France’s crushing defeat in June 1940, the Nazis moved forward with plans to reorganize a European continent now largely under Hitler’s heel. While Germany’s military power would set the agenda, several among the Nazi elite argued that permanent German hegemony required something more: a pan-European cultural empire that would crown Hitler’s wartime conquests. At a time when the postwar European project is under strain, Benjamin G. Martin brings into focus a neglected aspect of Axis geopolitics, charting the rise and fall of Nazi-fascist “soft power” in the form of a nationalist and anti-Semitic new ordering of European culture. |
Contents
A New Cultural Order for Europe | |
Chapter 1 Creating Cultural Networks | |
Chapter 2 Cooperation or Capitulation? | |
Chapter 3 The European Character of the GermanItalian Axis | |
Chapter 4 A Radicalized Pure InterNationalism | |
Chapter 5 New Orders in Berlin and Rome | |
Chapter 6 European Culture under German Hegemony | |