ISBN:
9781498585026
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
394.269435125
Keywords:
National socialism-Germany
Abstract:
In this study Erika L. Briesacher argues that festivals in Lübeck, Germany spanning 1920 to 1960 demonstrate interlocking economic, social, and cultural factors that contribute to local, national, and international identity formation.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Background and Contexts -- Interpretive Frameworks -- Organization and Structure -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Finance, Festivals, and the Aftermath of the Great War -- To Hold or Not to Hold-The Early Stages of Planning -- Formulating the Festival -- Festival Planning in Cultural Context -- Notgeld and Nordische Woche -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Celebration, Culture, and Commerce: Nordische Woche 1921 -- The Lead-Up to Nordische Woche -- Staging Spaces -- Ads and Pricing -- Nordische Woche in Text -- Nordische Woche in Word and Deed -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Evolving Identity: The Nordische Gesellschaft, 1921-1938 -- The Early Nordische Gesellschaft, Identity, and Economic Tension -- The Interference of Hyperinflation -- The Rentenmark, Stabilization, and a Renewed Nordische Gesellschaft -- Outreach and Cultural Activities -- Polarizing German Society and the Turn of the Decade -- The Nazis, Gleichschaltung, and Early Nazi Policy -- Acceleration: the Nuremberg Laws to Kristallnacht -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Nazi Nordicism in War and Occupation -- Hamburg's Nordische Woche, 1938 -- Waging Total War -- The Final Days of War and Capitulation -- British Occupation and Preparing for the Nuremberg Trials -- Diplomacy, Law, and Local Concerns -- Denazification -- Notes -- Chapter 5: New Nordic Days -- Zonal Conflict, the Border, and Postwar Diplomacy -- The Centrality of Checkpoints -- West Germany Emergent and the Uneven Economic Miracle -- Nordische Tage 1953 -- Nordische Tage 1954 -- The Last Nordische Tage -- Leaving Nordische Tage Behind -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- Digital and Manuscript Sources -- Printed Primary Sources -- Secondary Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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