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“The moment that propaganda is recognized as such it becomes ineffective. However, the moment that propaganda, message, bent or attitude as such stay in the background and appear to people only as storyline, action, or side-effect, then they will become effective in every respect… all art has a message. Art has an aim, a goal,…

During the period of Nazi control, the Catholic Church faced opposition with regards to educating the masses of its religious doctrines. The church’s desire to educate conflicted with Nazi ideology, resulting in a cold war between the two powers that lasted until Germany’s eventual defeat. Under Nazi rule, the Catholic Church was met with conflict…

During the second World War, the Nazi regime acquired an expansive amount of territory that stretched between Norway, France, the Balkans, and the Crimea. Germans were willing to resettle in much of western Europe that the Nazis occupied if the conditions of the occupation were mild. Other regions annexed by the Nazis, particularly those east…

When asked to name something that was distinctly influenced by the Nazi period, most people would not say motherhood. However, what it meant to be a mother changed greatly during this time as women became mothers to not only their children, but the whole of the Aryan race. One of the major tenets of Nazi…

On August 23, 1914, roughly a month after the start of World War I, twenty-four-year-old Eduard Schmieder, a student of administration serving as a soldier, wrote: In war, one learns how beautiful, how rich, our life is, despite adversities both great and small … After each battle, one thanks God that one is still alive;…

One of the most employed justifications behind the collaborators of the Nazi Regime is the idea that they were forced to commit the acts that they did, under pain of death. Although, the role of the Wehrmacht to serve under the Third Reich may not have been as radicalized as most would believe. Despite the…

While some will argue that the Nazi Regime held a pro-natalist policy towards women, encouraging ‘Aryan’ women to reproduce and raise large families, others will argue the Nazis actually had an anti-natalist policy, which targeted women who were deemed ‘inferior’ and prevented them from reproducing through sterilization. The Nazi policy led different groups of women…

In seeking to understand Nazi Germany, it is vital for one to understand how Nazi Germany understood itself. Unlike its neighbors, the Third Reich was not a nation-state in which the national community was built on shared civic participation. Rather, the Nazi state was explicitly constructed around the German ethnic community, or volksgemeinschaft. As such,…

Over the course of the semester, students in HIST 4273 / JWST 4998 Nazi Germany at Loyola Marymount University will conduct research about a variety of topics related to the history of Nazi Germany and the German process of Vergangenheitsbewältigung. Together they will build a timeline related to their analysis of primary sources, with each…