From Berlin to Neubabelsberg
Nazi Film Propaganda and Hitler Youth Quex
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10073985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jay W Baird (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 495-515 |
| Publication date | 1983-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002200948301800307 |
| OpenAlex | W2023660115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Seldom have film, myth, and history been so integrated as they were in Hitler Youth Quex, one of the most important films produced during the early years of the Third Reich. This work, celebrating the life and death of a symbolic Hitler Youth, became an integral part of Nazi ideology and played a role in influencing millions of young Germans to be prepared to sacrifice their lives for Fuhrer, Volk, and Fatherland. The apotheosis of Herbert Norkus (Hitlerjunge Quex) was the counterpoint to the death, resurrection and return of the Brown Shirt hero, Horst Wessel. But unlike the case of Wessel, the popularization of the saga of Norkus was fundamentally a creation of the film. Hitler Youth Quex lent currency to Goebbels's affirmation that 'film is one of the most modern and far-reaching means of influencing the masses'.' It set the standard for subsequent Nazi film propaganda and its effect was enormous. Hitler Youth Quex appealed to Goebbels because it was produced in the heroic key of National Socialism, was to the Nazis a felicitous union of political realism
Apotheosis · Art · Art history · Fatherland · HERO · Literature · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Political science · Politics · European history and politics · German History and Society · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2020 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |