«‘Unmasking Hitler’ opens a fascinating discussion that should receive wider attention among scholars and students of German history, media, culture, and visual arts.» (Richard John Ascárate, Medienwissenschaft)
Unmasking Hitler
Cultural Representations of Hitler from the Weimar Republic to the Present
herausgegeben von Klaus Berghahn und Jost HermandAmong the many studies on German National Socialism that have appeared in the last forty to fifty years, one aspect has seldom been treated in detail: the cultural representations of Adolf Hitler from the late 1920s to the present. This book focuses on the image of Hitler in literature, photography, historiography, film, philosophy, theatre, and comic books by major artists and scholars such as Ernst Ottwalt, Heinrich Hoffmann, Bertolt Brecht, John Hearfield, Leni Riefenstahl, Charles Chaplin, Theodor W. Adorno, Heiner Muller, and George Tabori.