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Charlie Chaplin and the Nazis : the long German campaign against the artist

Title
  1. Charlie Chaplin and the Nazis : the long German campaign against the artist / Norbert Aping ; foreword by Kevin Brownlow.
Published by
  1. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2024]
Author
  1. Aping, Norbert, 1952-

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Additional authors
  1. Brownlow, Kevin
Description
  1. x, 473 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
  1. "Until recently, it was assumed that the Nazis agitated against Chaplin from 1931 to 1933, and then again from 1938, when his plan to make The Great Dictator became public. This book demonstrates that Nazi agitation against Chaplin was in fact a constant from 1926 through the Third Reich. When The Gold Rush was released in the Weimar Republic in 1926, the Nazis began to fight Chaplin, whom they alleged to be Jewish, and attempted to expose him as an intellectual property thief whose fame had faded. In early 1935, the film The Gold Rush was explicitly banned from German theaters. In 1936, the NSDAP Main Archives opened its own file on Chaplin, and the same year, he became entangled in the machinery of Nazi press control. German diplomats were active on a variety of international levels to create a mood against The Great Dictator. The Nazis' dehumanizing attacks continued until 1944, when an opportunity to capitalize on the Joan Barry scandal arose. This book paints a complicated picture of how the Nazis battled Chaplin as one of their most reviled foreign artists"--
Uniform title
  1. Liberty Shtunk! English
Alternative title
  1. Liberty Shtunk!
Subject
  1. Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977 > Appreciation > Germany
  2. Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977
  3. National socialism and motion pictures
  4. National socialism in motion pictures
  5. Art appreciation
  6. Germany
Call number
  1. MWES (Chaplin, C.) 24-2810
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-450) and index.
Author
  1. Aping, Norbert, 1952- author, translator.
Title
  1. Charlie Chaplin and the Nazis : the long German campaign against the artist / Norbert Aping ; foreword by Kevin Brownlow.
Publisher
  1. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2024]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-450) and index.
Added author
  1. Brownlow, Kevin, writer of foreword.
LCCN
  1. 2023038304
ISBN
  1. 9781476687407 paperback
  2. 1476687404 paperback
  3. 9781476649405 electronic book
Research call number
  1. MWES (Chaplin, C.) 24-2810
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