Fellow Tribesmen
Subtitle: The Image of Native Americans, National Identity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany
By: Frank Usbeck
Series: Studies in German history -- volume 19
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781782386544; 9781782386551
Subjects: German National characteristics; History; Nationalism; Indians in popular culture; Indians of North America; Public opinion; National socialism; Philosophy; Race; Popular culture; Politics and government; Intellectual life
Description: "Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. This book explores the evolution of German national identity and its relationship with the ideas and cultural practices around 'Indianthusiasm.'  Pervasive and adaptable, imagery of Native Americans was appropriated by Nazi propaganda and merged with exceptionalist notions of German tribalism, oxymoronically promoting the Nazis' racial ideology. This book combines cultural and intellectual history to scrutinize the motifs of Native American imagery in German literature, media, and scholarship, and analyzes how these motifs facilitated the propaganda effort to nurture national pride, racial thought, militarism, and hatred against the Allied powers among the German populace"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: The image of Indians in German romanticism and emerging nationalism; title: Nation-formation, national identity, and nationalism; title: Relatives, allies, or subjects? : applications of Nazi ideology through Indian imagery in popular media and academia.