Alexandra Birch

Hitler's Twilight of the Gods

Music and the Orchestration of War and Genocide in Europe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates the integral role music played in Nazi statecraft and ideology, from the personal obsessions of the Nazi leadership to the harrowing use of musical sadism in the Holocaust.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781487549190
• ISBN-10: 1487549199
• Artikelnr.: 71697673

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Birch is the Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Prelude
1. Das Reichgold
2. Donner und Blitzkrieg
3. A Blood-Oath to the Reich: Musical Sadism and the Holocaust in the USSR
4. Treblinka: A Forest Portal to Hell
5. Valhalla Burns: Music and the Teutonic Delusions of the Nazi Command in
the Final Days of the Second World War
6. Trauermusik
Epilogue: Das Erlösungsmotiv
Notes
Bibliography
Index