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Arts , Economy, and Foreign Relations

Arts , Economy, and Foreign Relations. Week 13. Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will. http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =_6uVrO5d6KU. Light-weight screwball comedies. Glückskinder (Lucky Kids, 1936) http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =1hgUx9h3nU4. “Degenerate art” exhibit, 1937.

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Arts , Economy, and Foreign Relations

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  1. Arts, Economy, andForeign Relations Week 13

  2. Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6uVrO5d6KU

  3. Light-weight screwball comedies Glückskinder (Lucky Kids, 1936) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hgUx9h3nU4

  4. “Degenerate art” exhibit, 1937

  5. Arno Breker’sReadiness

  6. Speer’s New Reich Chancellery, 1934-43

  7. Hitler’s plans for Germania

  8. Nazis’ economic revamping • Preceding administrations’ improvements • World-wide improvement in the economy • Autobahn: over 100,000 jobs • Reinhardt programs: investment in job creation • Support of agricultural sector, hereditary farms • Marriage loan scheme: women at home • Creative way with statistics

  9. “Primacy of politics” • Tim Mason’s Marxist reinterpretation of Nazi Germany, written in 1960s and 1970s • Rather than a consequence of capitalism, Fascism was driven by ideology • Big industry stayed on the side • In the middle of the total war, improving workers’ standard of living • Lively discussion among East German historians

  10. German foreign policy, 1933-41 • At first calming other countries, pact with Poland • Failed coup in Austria in 1934, turning the country into autocracy • Saarland (1935), Rhineland (1936) • Rapprochement with Italy: conflict in Ethiopia and Spain • Berlin-Rome Axis, 1936: closing ranks with Mussolini • Hossbach memorandum, Nov 1937 • Japan becomes ally in 1937 • Austria annexed in March 1938 • Appeasement: Czechoslovakia broken up Sep 38, occupied March 39 • Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, August 39 • Attack on Poland and beginning of WWII, Sep 1, 1939 • Operation Barbarossa: attach on the Soviet Union, June 1941

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