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

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

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Additional Authors
Brownlow, Kevin
Description
x, 473 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
"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
Liberty Shtunk! English
Alternative Title
Liberty Shtunk!
Subject
  • Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977 > Appreciation > Germany
  • Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977
  • National socialism and motion pictures
  • National socialism in motion pictures
  • Art appreciation
  • Germany
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-450) and index.
Call Number
MWES (Chaplin, C.) 24-2810
ISBN
  • 9781476687407
  • 1476687404
  • 9781476649405 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2023038304
OCLC
1350183638
Author
Aping, Norbert, 1952- author, translator.
Title
Charlie Chaplin and the Nazis : the long German campaign against the artist / Norbert Aping ; foreword by Kevin Brownlow.
Publisher
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2024]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-450) and index.
Added Author
Brownlow, Kevin, writer of foreword.
Research Call Number
MWES (Chaplin, C.) 24-2810
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