Representing the Indian, Imagining the Volksgemeinschaft. Indianthusiasm and Nazi Propaganda in German Print Media

The German fascination with Native Americans has been a tradition of several centuries, beginning with the first reports about the New World and its peoples. The main features of German Indian imagery have evolved since the early nineteenth century and have evoked the phenomenon of mass euphoria for...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Usbeck, Frank
Other Authors: Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden 2016
Subjects:
USA
Online Access:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-197936
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-197936
http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/19793/ES_2013_15-1_Usbeck-2.pdf
Description
Summary:The German fascination with Native Americans has been a tradition of several centuries, beginning with the first reports about the New World and its peoples. The main features of German Indian imagery have evolved since the early nineteenth century and have evoked the phenomenon of mass euphoria for Indians in the late 1800s, a euphoria which lasted for more than one hundred years. This fascination has been a source of curiosity for both Native peoples and scholars.