O svůdné a klamavé Třetí říši
The Third Reich, Alluring and Deceiving

Summary/Abstract: Reichel, Peter. Svůdný klam Třetí říše: Fascinující a násilná tvář fašismu. Trans. from the German by Josef Boček. Prague: Argo, 2004, 388 pp. The reviewer fi rst points to the rarity of historical research into the phenomon of everyday life and culture in Germany under the Nazi régime. Reichel’s work in this respect is among the best, and, according to the reviewer, should inspire similar research into Czechoslovak everyday life and culture under the Communist régime. In this translation his Der schöne Schein des Dritten Reiches. Faszination und Gewalt des Faschismus (Munich, 1991), Reichel, however, does not deal merely with traditionally conceived relationship between culture and politics under the Nazis, but focuses instead on the omnipresent aestheticization of the régime as an instrument to bolster the sense of community, and he examines topics such as urban studies, leisure, and the consumption of goods in the Third Reich. His interpretation is based on the idea of the crisis of modernity, something widely discussed in Germany today.

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