The Road to Hitler: Culture and Society in Germany, 1900-1945

FAIN: FS-10176-76

Tufts University (Somerville, MA 02144-2401)
Sol Gittleman (Project Director: January 1976 to present)

To study the social and cultural phenomena of pre-Hitler Germany in an attempt to explain the dynamics of what led Germany to embrace Nazism focusing on expressionist art, literature and film; the impact of Nietzsche, Freud, Wagner and Marx; the doctrine of Aryan supremacy; and the search for an alternative to communism and capitalism.