Class Year
2014
Document Type
Student Research Paper
Date of Creation
Spring 2014
Department 1
History
Abstract
This essay analyzes musical life in the Third Reich. More specifically, the focus will be on the Nazis’ regulation of music and the role that musicians themselves played in determining and enforcing cultural coordination. While some evidence extends into the war years (1939-1945), the bulk of the information presented here took place in the pre-war Nazi era (1933-1939). The purpose here is to show that those musicians who worked with and under the Nazis were affected in different ways and had varying levels of agency within the National Socialist system. Some have been branded collaborators, others victims, and this paper will question this binary system of classification. Following a trend of historical revisionism in this field, this paper takes into account that the question of culpability is now less certain than ever.
Copyright Note
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Bennett, Thomas G., "Banished from the Present: Musicians in Nazi Germany" (2014). Student Publications. 218.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/218
Included in
Cultural History Commons, European History Commons, Military History Commons, Music Commons
Comments
History Senior Thesis