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DOI<br>https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0003<br>License<br>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
Copyright<br>Lionel Gossman<br>Published On<br>2009-04-20<br>ISBN<br>Paperback978-1-906924-06-5<br>Hardback978-1-906924-07-2<br>PDF978-1-906924-08-9<br>HTML978-1-80064-430-4
Language<br>English
Print Length<br>217 pages (xiii + 204)<br>Dimensions<br>Paperback156 x 12 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.46" x 9.21")<br>Hardback156 x 14 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.56" x 9.21")
Weight<br>Paperback685g (24.16oz)<br>Hardback1064g (37.53oz)
Media<br>Illustrations21
Funding<br>The University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Princeton University
OCLC Number<br>699563621<br>LCCN<br>2019467302<br>BIC<br>HBJD<br>BG
BISAC<br>HIS014000<br>BIO000000
LCC<br>DD256.5
Keywords<br>Nazism<br>National Socialism<br>German history<br>German literature<br>European history<br>World War II<br>Second World War<br>poetry
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European Studies<br>European Studies: German Studies<br>Biography<br>History<br>Brownshirt Princess<br>A Study of the 'Nazi Conscience'<br>Lionel Gossman (author)
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Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a rebellious young writer who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded artist who was to join the German Communist Party. Ludwig Roselius was a successful businessman who had made a fortune from his invention of decaffeinated coffee. What was it about the revolutionary climate following World War I that induced three such different personalities to collaborate in the production of a slim volume of poetry—entitled Gott in Mir—about the indwelling of the divine within the human? Gossman's study situates the poem in the ideological context that made the collaboration possible: pantheism, Darwinism, disillusionment with traditional liberal values, theosophy and völkisch religions, and Lebensreform. The study outlines the subsequent life of the Princess who, until her death in 1993, continued to support and celebrate the ideals and heroes of National Socialism. Brownshirt Princess provides deep insight into the sources and character of the "Nazi Conscience", and is invaluable reading for anybody interested in understanding German society during the inter-war and Nazi periods. The University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Princeton University, has generously contributed towards the publication of this volume.
Reviews<br>Brownshirt Princess is "an informed and highly readable depiction of a cultural landscape in which contrasting political and artistic currents often converged... this study is in many respects original and inspiring."
Daria Santini<br>"Brownshirt Princess: A Study of the ‘‘Nazi Conscience’' by Lionel Gossman". MLR (0026-7937), vol. 106, no. 1, 2011. doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.106.1.0295
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Additional Resources<br>[document]Scan of the original Gott in Mir(From Firestone Library, Princeton University.)<br>[document]A translation into English of Gott in Mir<br>[document, 2.1 MB]From Jugendstil to Agitprop. The itinerary of Heinrich VogelerImage Portfolio 1
[document, 1.61 MB]Identifying with God and the CosmosImage Portfolio 2. A selection of works by artists of the period 1880-1933 - paintings, drawings, book illustrations - expressing a religiosity similar to that of Gott in Mir.
[document, 9.74 MB]Odd Man Out: Heinrich Vogeler and Fin-de-siècle Worpswede<br>[website]Heinrich Vogeler Gesellschaft's website
Contents<br>The Title<br>(pp. 15–41)<br>Lionel Gossman
The Epigraph and the Envoy<br>(pp. 43–46)<br>Lionel Gossman
The Poem<br>(pp. 47–55)<br>Lionel Gossman
Appendix to Part I: Yhe Volkisch Rejection of Christianity<br>(pp. 57–61)<br>Lionel Gossman
Marie Adelheid, Prinzessin Reuss-zur Lippe: Society, Ideology, and Politics<br>(pp. 65–88)<br>Lionel Gossman
Nordische Frau und Nordischer Glaube<br>(pp. 89–93)<br>Lionel Gossman
Die Overbroocks<br>(pp. 95–106)<br>Lionel Gossman
After 1945: Unrepentant Neo-Nazi<br>(pp. 107–126)<br>Lionel Gossman
Concluding Reflections<br>(pp. 127–130)<br>Lionel Gossman
Introduction: An Unusual Book and a Strange Collaboration<br>(pp. 1–12)<br>Lionel Gossman
Contributors<br>Lionel Gossman<br>(author)<br>M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Romance Languages (Emeritus) at Princeton University
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