tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post3679202307202062199..comments2024-03-28T17:58:56.707+11:00Comments on The Social Pathologist: Raiders of the Lost Nazi ArtThe Social Pathologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-39186524146294317132017-08-21T14:40:51.874+10:002017-08-21T14:40:51.874+10:00This comment has been removed by the author.harada57https://www.blogger.com/profile/06015023155124017905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-52700300521514734992017-04-20T19:04:29.359+10:002017-04-20T19:04:29.359+10:00Anon:
I shall look and see what I have. Yo...Anon:<br /> I shall look and see what I have. You must understand I am what is referred to as a "collector" and "trader" which means I have a veritable mountain of artifacts, films , recordings, texts scattered among various homes and offices. At any rate, one such collection among quite a few is a set of special release,limited edition 78's (with incredible diachrome mylar labels unlike anything else I've seen - actually found in a 2nd hand curio shop on the lower East side NY in the 70's by a friend. and acquired for my collecton) recorded by the great Count Basie, along with others such as the great, but now unknown Lester Dexts in Berlin 1937. Count Basie is on record saying not only the Nazis treated him with complete respect, but the regime understood music and the Berlin recording scene was years ahead of everywhere else. This music was completely unlike his US recordings, and obviously directly influenced Coltrain's "Love Supreme" recordings. History has been scrubbed of the fact that many of the Negro jazz greats spent the formative part of the careers in pre war Europe, including Germany, and many greats known then and unknown now never returned, though some live on until recently in France and Italy, their families living there today.<br />Also I have a colletion of a particular "white' German jazz band. Often in war movies and books you see references to the fact the soldiers are listening and dancing to jazz music. What is untold is at the start of the war they were listening to German radio signals - it is only later in the war the Americans started 'jazz' or music broadcasts as listening to German music was disallowed. "Lil Marlene' is only one part of the story, the greater part has been scrubbed as it is considered to give the wrong impression to the public about Nazi race policies.n/u9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-82559130266011907132017-04-09T22:59:02.482+10:002017-04-09T22:59:02.482+10:00@Anon
I think it's important not to conflate ...@Anon<br /><br />I think it's important not to conflate the New Deal with Fascism/Communism. While there are similarities the New Deal represented an expansion of the powers of government and the administrative class. Fascism and Communism did the same thing but they did it within the context of a "political religion." The expansion of government was their practical method of implementing their ideological visions, but the mechanism of government was subordinate to the political vision. In the New Deal government was felt to be a better instrument of social policy than private enterprise, the New Deal wasn't attempting to be the incarnation of a new religion.<br />The Social Pathologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-27800708055692813092017-04-09T11:22:18.284+10:002017-04-09T11:22:18.284+10:00I wonder what free reign one might have in using t...I wonder what free reign one might have in using these images?<br /><br />N/u9, could you tell us what music groups, or how we might look it up? Your description is very intriguing.<br /><br />"Maertz wanted to hold an exhibition illustrating the similarity between Nazi, Communist and New Deal (!) art but this was judged verboten. ".<br />I wonder how Griffin or Maertz's work would pair with this?<br />https://www.amazon.com/Three-New-Deals-Reflections-Roosevelts-ebook/dp/B003J48C9A/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1491700257&sr=1-1&keywords=Three+new+dealsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-44603618978391653502017-04-04T16:00:09.586+10:002017-04-04T16:00:09.586+10:00I've seen some of those films and they are ama...I've seen some of those films and they are amazing. Whats strange is that they are non-ideological, existentialist in tone. In one I saw they had some fairly interesting jazz/industrial music. I later learned there was quite a few experimental jazz bands in the third reich. The only proviso is your music not be about drugs or cheap sex. It was interesting to see that even in the thirties a sound like Kraftwerk or Tangerine Dream was coalescing. n/u9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-91891751778234267752017-04-04T04:29:29.368+10:002017-04-04T04:29:29.368+10:00A few years ago, I read some articles on the net t...A few years ago, I read some articles on the net that taken together tended to suggest that more interesting non-juvenile film was produced during the Third Reich than during Hollywood of the same period. One of the films was a favorite of Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek. icrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11379038875116266168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-77838421639038805622017-04-04T00:43:52.211+10:002017-04-04T00:43:52.211+10:00What was quite obvious at the beginning of the WWI...What was quite obvious at the beginning of the WWII become intentionally forgotten after just a few years. <br /><br />Guy Crouchback the protagonist of Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honor series, upon learning about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact <br />"The enemy was at last in plain view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast of. It was the Modern Age in arms." <br />Had the Nazis won the war they would've conducted the anti-religious campaign in the style of USSR. Progressives at least were a little more sly in their anti-religious crusade. <br /><br />The conflict was between three strands of leftism: Progressivism, Communism, and Fascism. Fascism had lost, and it needed to become a scapegoat. Having a big and scary external enemy is good for morale. Particularly if everyone is dirt poor and starving. Antifascism would become synonymous with Communism, and one third of the war Fascism and Communism spent as allies forgotten. After that "fascist" became anyone whom the left didn't like.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14387061181175539546noreply@blogger.com