Der Faustische Pakt : Goethe und die Goethe-Gesellschaft im Dritten Reich
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 31128171
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
- ISBN
- 978-3-423-28166-9
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is a 368-page monograph based on many years of extensive archival research. Double weight is requested on the grounds that in terms of scholarly intensity, investment and weight it corresponds to double the value expected of a standard output in our judgement.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This volume presents the first full assessment of the Goethe Gesellschaft in the Third Reich, and of its role in reimagining Goethe for ideological purposes. Drawing on archival research, it examines the differing opinions of Goethe among German nationalists, the impact of antisemitism on the Gesellschaft, the battle for control of the Gesellschaft after 1933, and the promotion of a nationalistic interpretation of Goethe for propaganda purposes. The volume also considers the stance of the Gesellschaft during the war, and points to its postwar failure adequately to come to terms with its own past.
