Hitler's Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich

by Lilian Karina, Marion Kant, Jonathan Steinberg

Book Overview

The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. However, few people know the fascinating story of German modern dance, which was the great exception. Modern expressive dance found favor with the regime and especially with the infamous Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. How modern artists collaborated with Nazism reveals an important aspect of modernism, uncovers the bizarre bureaucracy which controlled culture and tells the histories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571816887
• ISBN13: 9781571816887
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"