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From 1933 to 1945, the Reich Chamber of Culture exercised a profound influence over hundreds of thousands of German artists and entertainers. Alan Steinweis focuses on the fields of music, theater, and the visual arts in this first major study of Nazi cultural administration, examining a complex pattern of interaction among leading Nazi figures, German cultural functionaries, ordinary artists, and consumers of culture. Steinweis gives special attention to Nazi efforts to purge the arts of Jews and other so-called undesirables.
Steinweis describes the political, professional, and economic environment in which German artists were compelled to function and explains the structure of decision making, thus showing in whose interest cultural policies were formulated. He discusses such issues as insurance, minimum wage statutes, and certification guidelines, all of which were matters of high priority to the art professions before 1933 as well as after the Nazi seizure of power. By elucidating the economic and professional context of cultural life, Steinweis helps to explain the widespread acquiescence of German artists to artistic censorship and racial 'purification.' His work also sheds new light on the purge of Jews from German cultural life.

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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments = ⅸ
Abbreviations = xi
Introduction = ⅰ
CHAPTER 1 Art and Culture in the Weimar Republic : The Economic, Institutional, and Political Context = 7
 The Weimar System of Professional Representation = 9
 The Impact of the Depression = 14
 The Neocorporatist Impulse = 17
 National Socialism and the Arts in the Weimar Era, = 20
CHAPTER 2 Nazi Coordination of the Arts and the Creation of the Reich Chamber of Culture, 1933 = 32
 Nazification of the Arts = 34
 Toward a Kulturkammer = 38
CHAPTER 3 Evolution of the Chamber System = 50
 Neocorporatism and Second Coordination, 1934-1936 = 51
 Administrative Centralization, 1935-1941 = 59
 The Struggle for Control over Civil Servants = 63
 The Struggle over Amateur Artists and Audiences = 69
CHAPTER 4 The Varieties of Patronage, I933-1939 = 73
 Work Creation = 74
 Regulating the Arts = 79
 Conflicts over Professionalization = 83
 A Balance Sheet : Prosperity Amid Hardship = 94
 Altersversorgung : Old-Age Pensions = 98
CHAPTER 5 Germanizing the Arts = 103
 The Purge of Non-Aryans = 104
 A Jewish Chamber = 120
 Other Victims of Paragraph 10 = 126
 The Apparatus of Censorship, 1933-1939 = 132
CHAPTER 6 Mobilizing Artists for War = 147
 Economic Bust and Boom = 148
 The Purge Intensifies = 157
 Wartime Censorship = 163
 Mobilization for Total War = 168
Conclusion = 174
Notes = 177
Bibliography = 217
Index = 227