The Nazification of an Academic Discipline: Folklore in the Third ReichJames R. Dow, Hannjost Lixfeld Indiana University Press, 1994 - 354 pagina's This volume explores the involvement of German and Austrian folklorists with the institutions and ideology of the Third Reich. In his introduction, James Dow traces the roots of this Nazification of folklore to the Nazis' exploitation of eighteenth-century concepts and philosophies. Contributors examine the establishment of folklore departments at German and Austrian universities during the National Socialist era; the perversion of the discipline for political ends by the government; and the attempt to establish a pan-German Reich Institute as an instrument of a fascist ideology. The establishment of departments of Volkskunde offered scholars the opportunity to broaden the base of their discipline. Ambition led many to implicitly and explicitly support the aims of their Nazi benefactors. Although not all the scholars in positions of authority were Party members, most became tools of a regime obsessed with its own racist mythology. In the postwar years there was no attempt to investigate this abuse of folklore. Instead, a legend of two folklores evolved - one of a racially biased and tainted discipline and one of a discipline that maintained itself above Nazi aims and manipulations. Here German and Austrian scholars examine this long-unexplored past in recent essays, now made available to the English-speaking world. Also included are previously unpublished documents that laid the groundwork for the National Socialists' perversion of folklore. |
Inhoudsopgave
Folklore and National Socialism | 1 |
Nazi Folk Ideology and Folk Research | 11 |
The Mythos of Germanic Continuity | 34 |
but when does the prewar begin? | 55 |
Nazi Conceptions of Culture and the Erasure | 69 |
FolkNational Work during the Third Reich | 87 |
The Weigel Symbol Archive and the Ideology | 97 |
Eugen Fehrle and The Mythos of Our Folk | 112 |
Folklore at the Universities of Graz and Salzburg | 156 |
The Office of Ancestral Inheritance and Folklore | 189 |
German Democratic Republic | 247 |
Epilogue | 264 |
TRANSLATIONS TERMINOLOGY AND ABBREVIATIONS | 297 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 308 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 346 |
The Battle for the Ostmark | 135 |
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Adolf Spamer Ahnenerbe Alfred Rosenberg Ancestral Inheritance archive of Geramb Austrian BA NS Berlin Bockhorn Brückner concept cultural Deutsche Volkskunde deutschen discipline DVA general correspondence Emmerich Eugen fascist Fehrle Fehrle's folklorists Folksong Forschungsstätte Freiburg Friedrich Führer Geramb German Folklore German Volkskunde Germanistics Gerndt Geschichte goal Graz Grunwald Harmjanz Heidelberg Heinrich Heinrich Himmler Heinz Maus Helbok Himmler Höfler Homeland ideology Institute intellectual Jacobeit Jeggle Jews John Meier Karl Kater Koren Lauffer League lecture letter München Munich Museum mythos National Socialism National Socialist National Socialist Volkskunde Nazi Nordic NSDAP Office Otto Peuckert Plaßmann political Private archive Professor pure German racial Reichsführer-SS Research Post Richard Wolfram Riehl Rosenberg Bureau Salzburg Schmidt scholars scholarship Sievers Spieß studies symbol research Teaching and Research Third Reich tion Tübingen Universität University Vienna Viktor Geramb Volks Volkstum und Heimat Weigel Wien Wilhelm Wissenschaft Wolfram Sievers world-view YIVO Zeitschrift für Volkskunde