“An imposing, austere row of buildings stretches for almost three miles along the east coast of Rügen, a German island in the Baltic Sea. Blocky and bleak, their unadorned design suggests a prison. But these buildings were meant for leisure: they form part of a Nazi-built seaside resort.” >full text (c) Atlas Obscura / SLATE, 2014
Archive for National Socialism
The art Hitler dismissed as ‘filth’
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 'degenerate art', Berlin, exhibition, Germany, National Socialism, New York, review on 12 March 2014 by delclem
“Degenerate Art”: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937. This New York exhibition revisits not only Germany’s ‘Degenerate Art’ show that destroyed so many artistic careers, but the Nazi rhetoric that made the exhibition possible. >review
(c) THE GUARDIAN, 2014
“It is Time for a Guinneß…”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1930s, advertising, beer, Germany, Guinness, Ireland, John Guilroy, National Socialism on 31 January 2014 by delclem
“Newly discovered paintings by John Guilroy, the artist behind much of Guinness’s pre-war advertising, reveal that the Dublin brewery had considered promoting the drink in Nazi Germany.” (c) SUNDAY TIMES, 18.01.2014
Nazi Weapon: Mosquitoes?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biological warfare, Germany, inventions, mosquitoes, National Socialism, weapons, World War Two on 27 January 2014 by delclem
This is almost surreal: “Mosquitoes as weapons? It was nearly a real-life threat during World War II, new research suggests.” >full text & photo (c) HUFF POST, 2014
“A monument of self-pity and self-justification” for Hungary
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Arrow Cross, Budapest, collaboration, cultural memory, Fidesz, Germany, Hungary, István Deák, memorials, memory politics, National Socialism, occupation, Second World War, World War on 26 January 2014 by delclem
The renowned Hungarian American historian István Deák on the Monument of German Occupation, 1944-45, which is planned in Budapest by the right-wing nationalist FIDEZ government > text (c) Hungarian Spectrum, 2014
photo of monument draft (c) FACEBOOK, 2014
“My romance in a town haunted by its Nazi past”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Jewish identity, love, National Socialism, Nazi past, romance, travel literature, Vienna on 21 January 2014 by delclem
“I was a young Jewish woman dating an older man, but I couldn’t escape Vienna’s dark history, or my fears about his.” The following is adapted from “Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour,” Rachel Shukert’s just-published memoir of traveling and living in Europe in her very early 20s. This excerpt takes place in Vienna, in the summer of 2003. >full text & illustration (c) SALON, 2014
PS. Why are these bitter sweet & slightly kitschy stories – a sort of Nazi romance/porn – so highly in demand in the English-speaking world?
“A History Lesson, Airbrushed”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags cinematography, collective guit, film, Germany, National Socialism, representation, review, Second World War, TV-series on 19 January 2014 by delclem
“Generation War, which was broadcast as a mini-series on German television last year, is perhaps more interesting as an artifact of the present than as a representation of the past. As tWW2 slips from living memory, as Germany asserts its dominant role in Europe with increasing confidence, and as long-suppressed information emerges from the archives of former Eastern bloc countries, the war’s cultural significance for Germans has shifted.”>review (c) NYT, 2014
>trailer (c) musicbox films
“How Hitler Tried to Redesign Christmas”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Germany, Hitler, National Socialism, Santa Claus on 24 December 2013 by delclem
“When the Nazis took power in 1933, Christmas was one of their first targets.
Not even Santa was safe.” >full text (c) FAST CO. DESIGN, 2013
Did Nazi spies like Ireland?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags espionage, Germany, Ireland, National Socialism, national stereotyping, Second World War on 4 December 2013 by delclem
“Research for a thriller set in 1940s Ireland revealed an influx of German agents who despaired about their gossipy, amateurish Irish sympathisers.” >full text & photo (c) IRISH TIMES, 2013
delirium clemens 