Hitler's War Poets

by Jay W. Baird

Book Overview

Jay W. Baird comes to grips with a theme which has been generally avoided by over two generations of scholars and literary critics. He argues that German literature did not end with the advent of Hitler in 1933, only to be reborn after the fall of the Third Reich in 1945. Baird demonstrates how poets and writers responded enthusiastically to Hitler's summons to artists to create a cultural revolution commensurate with the political radicalism of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521145635
• ISBN13: 9780521145633
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"