Proceedings

Proceedings
Author: Industrial Recreation and Music Institute
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1946-10
Genre:
ISBN:

Nazi-Organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich

Nazi-Organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich
Author: Julia Timpe
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137531932

This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme. Shortly after coming to power in Germany, it began a large-scale undertaking to bring happiness and a good life to so-called 'Aryan' Germans, carried out by the Nazi leisure organization Kraft durch Freude. Julia Timpe traces Kraft durch Freude's practices and propaganda from 1933 through the Second World War, and analyses Nazi-organized sports classes, entertainment events, and beautification campaigns for industrial sites and the countryside, as well as Kraft durch Freude's activities in entertaining German soldiers and concentration camp guards. Contributing to newer scholarship which focuses on the integratory force of the Nazi promise of a unified 'racial community' of all 'Aryan' Germans, this book highlights that Kraft durch Freude's 'everyday production of joy' was central to Nazism, closely connected to the destructive side of the Third Reich, and ultimately a major reason for Nazism's success among the German population.

Recreation

Recreation
Author: Ferdinand John Lipovetz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1950
Genre: Recreation
ISBN:

Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe

Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe
Author: Irene Eber
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2012-04-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110268183

The study discusses the history of the Jewish refugees within the Shanghai setting and its relationship to the two established Jewish communities, the Sephardi and Russian Jews. Attention is also focused on the cultural life of the refugees who used both German and Yiddish, and on their attempts to cope under Japanese occupation after the outbreak of the Pacific War. Differences of identity existed between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, religious and secular, aside from linguistic and cultural differences. The study aims to understand the exile condition of the refugees and their amazing efforts to create a semblance of cultural life in a strange new world.