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The Blondest Of The Blondes: National Socialist Paradigms For A New German Theatre, William Grange
The Blondest Of The Blondes: National Socialist Paradigms For A New German Theatre, William Grange
William Grange
The National Socialists encountered little resistance in their campaign to demolish the German theatre and to reassemble it along revolutionary lines when they took over the reigns of political control in 1933. They had since 1925 promised to reform German cultural institutions upon assuming power, and high on their list of priorities was the wholesale extirpation of “bastardized mestizoism” in culture with the aid of a state bureaucracy. Their guide in that effort was a cultural theory resembling many other Nazi doctrines, because it was formulated to give the National Socialist German Workers' Party a patina of intellectual legitimacy. Adolf …