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WWI years Mein Kampf "My Struggle" by Hitler Landsberg Prison 1924 Promoting anti-semitism Overcoming Marxism Years of the Weimar Republic Years of the Nazi Regime Hitler appointed chancellor January 30, 1933 By President Hindenburg Artist-Dictator Passion and artistic genius Constructive Capable of violence Lebensraum Hitler's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German people in Eastern Europe 3 kinds of races theory Founders, Bearers, and Destroyers of culture Aryans = Founders Pan-germanism "Brining ethnic germans home" Those who speak German and germanic languages Complete German unification Definition of Nazism The creation of a new racial German community under the leadership of one man Major tenets - Anti- semitism - Lebensraum - Nationalism - Leadership Principle - Self-Sacrifice - Eugenics/ Racial Hygiene - Pan-germanism - Anti-communism Political Conditions before Hitler Weimar Republic Social conditions before Hitler - Large amount of poverty from paying reparations - Loss of territory from ww1 - Relatively new nation state (1871) NSDAP National Socialist German Workers Party the year the Treaty of Versailles was signed 1919 WWI importance Loss of German territory New Nationalism 4 key dates Jan 30th 1933 Feb 27th 1933 Feb 28th 1933 March 24th 1933 Feb 27th 1933 Reichstag burns down by a communist (Parliament who was directly elected) Feb 28th 1933 - Reichstag Fire Decree - Suspended civil liberties like freedom of expression, press, and right to assembly - Used as legal basis for the imprisonment of anyone considered to be opponents of Nazism - Imprisoned many communists which lead to NSDAP getting more votes on March 5th election March 24th 1933 - Enabling Act - Allowed Hitler to pass laws without consent from German Parliament or President - Gained Hitler total power "Law on the Head of state of German Reich" - 1934 - When president Hindenburg dies the President and Chancellor will combine Premis #1 The cinema of the Third Reich must be seen in context of a totalitarian state's attempt to remake German culture and politics Gleichschaltung 4 - the coordination of all institutions under Nazi control - every aspect of nazi life controlled - institutions that stood in the way were taken control of or banned - control of education and youth movements reduced likelihood of future opposition Important goal of nazi cinema overcoming weimar cinema with a new aesthetic Premis #2 Nazi films were meant to entertain "to move the hearts and minds of masses while seeming to have little in common with politics" Premis #3 Orchestra principle: cinema plays a part in the overall program of creating a new culture Premis #4 Nazi culture was a popular culture not just "official art" Premis#5 Nazi films aimed to be aesthetically pleasing and drew on traditional models of filmmaking including American Cinema conventions Sigmund Freud pleasure principle 4 - avoid pain and seek pleasure - security and freedom - impossible to be fulfilled - Love = most intense happiness but worst pain of all Why pleasure principle is impossible to fulfill 3 - bodies doomed to decay - external world rage against us with merciless forces of destruction - receive pain from relations to others Junger Pain 4 - Elementary zone - must deal with pain - modern world = deals with pain in the wrong way / zone of sensitivity - Must deal with pain to create a better world (similar to nazi view) the last man the bourgeois liberal humanity complacent, bored, no goal, no sense of extreme pleasure or pain contemporary societies view of itself 6 - value security - shelter and safety - liberal society - freedom of expression - private property - avoid pain at all cost Characteristics of the worker society 6 - discipline - absolute authority of leaders - detachment - mastery of pain not avoidance - "second" consciousness and objectification of oneself - worker will overcome and replace the last man History of the Holocaust 3 - pledge to create a new Germany - "national community" - those threatening the body of the people had to be ruthlessly excluded and eliminated Intentionalism vs functionalism - initiatives for holocaust came from hitler and nazi elite - initiatives came from lower ranks within bureaucracy Holocaust vs Shoah - burnt offering vs destruction Kristallnacht / night of broken glass 4 - 9th November 1938 - Trigger: assassination of Paris consular office by polish jew on nov 7 - presented spontaneous but was staged - anniversary of Beer Hall Putsch Pogrom - organized massacre aimed at the destruction of a body or class of people