How Does Goebbels Use Nazi Art?

It is apparent the Nazi’s attempted to integrate the arts with politics to fuse the principles of Nazi ideology in developing an authoritarian regime who was united under racial principles. Eric Michaud stresses that it was Hitler’s goal to become this prophetic type of a figure who will lead the Aryan Germans exodus from the influence of degenerate people by the edge of the sword. Therefore, he was steadfast in creating a utopian society for his personal reasons and for political consideration he involved the German race into. However, Allan Steinweis in his book, Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts, argues that it was Joseph Goebbels who manipulated organizations that existed during the Weimar Republic and used them for controlling culture. This argument unveils a counter-argument made by Petropoulos and Huener in explaining why the artists behaved in a certain way. Manipulation of the organizations by Goebbels brought numerous amount artists to cooperate with the regime. Unlike Petropoulos, Allan stresses that artists were forced to collaborate with regime enthusiastically, applying German artists lost the willpower to control the content they wanted to generate. However, similar to other scholars mentioned above, Allan suggests that the artists became compliant to Nazi ideals …show more content…
As ambiguous as it is determining the intentions of the Nazi’s in the field of art and culture, Hermand acknowledges the fact Nazi cultural policies were never consistent. However, he stresses that Nazi’s were well aware that arts determined political legitimacy hence offered a path that was based on their ideology to overcome the multiple class divisions present in society. Therefore, Nazi cultural policies were detrimental in configuring legitimacy to