Fellow Tribesmen : The Image of Native Americans, National Identity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany
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| Title: | Fellow Tribesmen : The Image of Native Americans, National Identity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany |
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| Description: | Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. This book explores the evolution of German national identity and its relationship with the ideas and cultural practices around “Indianthusiasm.” Pervasive and adaptable, imagery of Native Americans was appropriated by Nazi propaganda and merged with exceptionalist notions of German tribalism, oxymoronically promoting the Nazis'racial ideology. This book combines cultural and intellectual history to scrutinize the motifs of Native American imagery in German literature, media, and scholarship, and analyzes how these motifs facilitated the propaganda effort to nurture national pride, racial thought, militarism, and hatred against the Allied powers among the German populace. |
| Authors: | Frank Usbeck |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Popular culture--Germany--History--20th century, Race--Philosophy, Public opinion--Germany--History--20th century, Nationalism--Germany--History--20th century, National characteristics, German--History--20th century, Indians in popular culture--Germany--History--20th century, National socialism--Philosophy, Indians of North America--Public opinion |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. This book explores the evolution of German national identity and its relationship with the ideas and cultural practices around “Indianthusiasm.” Pervasive and adaptable, imagery of Native Americans was appropriated by Nazi propaganda and merged with exceptionalist notions of German tribalism, oxymoronically promoting the Nazis'racial ideology. This book combines cultural and intellectual history to scrutinize the motifs of Native American imagery in German literature, media, and scholarship, and analyzes how these motifs facilitated the propaganda effort to nurture national pride, racial thought, militarism, and hatred against the Allied powers among the German populace. |
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| ISBN: | 9781782386544 9781782386551 |
