ABSTRACT
For literature, too, the ‘Machtübernahme’ on 30 January 1933 was the beginning of a new era, a ‘new dawn’ a ‘Neubeginn der deutschen Kultur’. Not only was new literature to be written, but a new history of literature, militant and propagandist Hitler in Mein Kampf tells us that propaganda is consistently one-sided statement, and since Hitler is quoted as an authority on literature in the more militant of the new histories, it is little wonder that that one-sidedness, which is one of the most marked of the Nazi characteristics, is evident here too. A melodramatic simplification is the keynote: literature is either Nazi white or anti-Nazi black.
