Title: Old dreams of a new Reich
Description: Old Dreams of a New Reich, the translation of Jost Hermand's comprehensive study of prefascist and fascist utopias (Der alte Traum vom neuen Reich), examines tracts and futuristic novels crucial to the development and final radicalization of German national sentiments from the second part of the eighteenth century. Scholars and propagandists used the glorified virtues of ancient German tribes to create the cult of Germanic values. These works offer a vivid insight into the public imagination between 1871 and 1945, and into the highly successful media machinations employed by the Right as it used all literary genres - including avant-gardistic works as well as pulp novels and works of science fiction - to manipulate the general public.
Subjects: Conservatism, Fascism, Fascism in literature, German prose literature, History, History and criticism, National socialism, Nationalism, Nationalism in literature, Utopias, German literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Fascism, germany, Nationalism, germany
Places: Germany
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century