![]() ![]() Im vorliegenden Aufsatz wird am Beispiel des Ludwig-Siebert-Programmes das Zusammenspiel nationalsozialistischer Kulturpolitik und regionaler Identität in der Pfalz untersucht. By focusing on the Palatinate town of Annweiler, which sits at the foot of the storied Trifels castle, a favored renovation project of Siebert's, this article offers a closely observed demonstration of these mechanisms at work. Because its melding of cultural politics and regional identity helped to stabilize the regime in the Palatinate during its early years, the Siebert program provides a particularly illustrative microhistorical case study of the Nazi regime's mechanisms for creating the Volksgemeinschaft in the provinces. The renovation of these monuments, which had been central to the cultural memory and identity of Pfälzers since at least the nineteenth century, proved to be effective in mobilizing the local populace for Siebert's aims and, consequently, for the goals of the Nazi regime. Created by Bavarian Minister-President Ludwig Siebert in the early 1930s to stimulate the regional construction industry, this program involved the conservation of medieval castles and ruins in Bavaria and the Palatinate. This article analyzes the interplay between Nazi cultural politics and regional identity in the Palatinate region of Germany through the lens of the Ludwig Siebert program. And never has the parallel been more striking than in the appalling spring of 1945, when it appeared to have become deadly." For a century the two were inseparable partners, often acting as instruments of one another. Nowhere in American industry-or that of any other country-can you find a match for the ties that have bound German governments to the Krupp family. ![]() The drums of conquest rolled in 1870, 1914, and 1939, and each time it was a Krupp who honed the Junker blade on the family’s anvils. Then, in the next half-century, Germany rose. During the Napoleonic era, when the country felt servile, the head of the house donned a French cockade and became a Francophile. ![]() In the Middle Ages, when Germany was weak, the Krupps appeared and plied their trade modestly in the walled city of Essen. ![]() ".Everything about the Krupps was remarkable: their way of life (secretive), their appearance (Vulpine), their empire (international), and their customers (chiefs of state), but nothing was quite so phenomenal as this habit of matching the Teuton mood of the moment. ![]()
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