Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-345) and index.
Contents
Folklore and national socialism : questions for further investigation / Helge Gerndt -- Nazi folk ideology and folk research / Hermann Bausinger -- The mythos of Germanic continuity / Wolfgang Emmerich -- ". . . but when does the prewar begin?" : folklore and fascism before and around 1933 / Hermann Strobach -- Nazi conceptions of culture and the erasure of Jewish folklore / Christoph Daxelmüller -- Folk-national work during the Third Reich / Hermann Bausinger -- The Weigel Symbol Archive and the ideology of national socialist folklore / Rolf Wilhelm Brednich -- Eugene Fehrle and "the mythos of our folk" / Peter Assion -- The battle for the "Ostmark" : Nazi folklore in Austria / Olaf Bockhorn -- Folklore at the Universities of Graz and Salzburg at the time of the Nazi takeover / Helmut Eberhart -- The Office of Ancestral Inheritance and Folklore Scholarship / Anka Oesterle.
Confronting national socialism in the folklore of the German Democratic Republic / Wolfgang Jacobeit -- Epilogue : overcoming the past of national socialistic folklore / James R. Dow and Hannjost Lixfeld.