ABSTRACT
Fascism has always provided top-drawer imagery for filmmakers and writers alike. This deep-rooted cultural fascination with fascism in general and Nazism in particular has pervaded popular culture in a variety of ways. With the aggressive and shameless use of the swastika by the tattooed armoured bodies of the skinhead cult and the more ambivalent subtle incorporation of 'Reich Style' that has always been part of mainstream image culture. The detached and dispassionate accounts of Nazi and fascist history, including Schindler's List, often fail to acknowledge the role they play in reproducing the popular and seemingly insatiable demand for Holocaust nightmares and Nazi terrors. The rituals, rallies and popular festivities of a culture dominated by the aestheticisation of everyday life, the Nazification of the public and private realms is argue, not only a compelling feature of Nazi ideology.
