Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany: An Introduction; P.E.Swett, C.Ross & F.d'Almeida PART I: CONSUMPTION AND THE PRIVILEGES OF PLEASURE Driving, Shopping and Smoking: The Society for Consumer Research and the Politics of Pleasure in Nazi Germany; S.J.Wiesen Selling Sexual Pleasure in 1930s Germany; P.E.Swett Luxury and Fashion under National Socialism; F.d'Almeida PART II: DISCIPLINE AND DISTRACTION: ENTERTAINMENTS AND THE AESTHETICS OF PLEASURE The Structure of Aesthetic Pleasure in the Nazi Reception of Goethe's Faust; D.Pan 'German Humour' in Books: The Attractiveness and Political Significance of Laughter during the Nazi Era; P.Merziger Pleasure, Practicality and Propaganda: Popular Magazines in Nazi Germany, 1933-39; K.C.Führer Radio, Film and Morale: Wartime Entertainment between Mobilization and Distraction; C.Ross PART III: THE PLEASURES OF COMMUNITY AND CONSENSUS Seeing the World: Photography, Photojournalism, and Visual Pleasure in the Third Reich; E.Harvey The Pleasures of Being a 'Political Soldier:' Nazi Functionaries and their Service to the 'Movement'; D.Mühlenfeld The Pleasure of Terror: Belonging through Genocide; T.Kühne The Pleasures of Opposition: Leisure, Solidarity and Resistance of a Life-reform Group; M.Roseman Bibliography Index