This collection provides readers with a comprehensive overview of postwar representations of Nazism in popular culture, documenting and critiquing their enormous impact and importance. From Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator to the depiction of Nazis in the Raiders of the Lost Ark to other various literature, comic books, video games, television programs, and pop music, Nazism has maintained a constant presence in popular culture after World War II. Why are representations of Nazism—which are often used to depict the ultimate expression of human evil—so entrenched in our culture? Each chapter in this book examines this multifaceted topic from different angles, highlighting the different incidences of Nazistic representations in the post-1945 period. The diverse subject matter in this text ranges from analysis of recent allo-historical novels, to the music of the "neo-folk" movement, to fetishes and pornography. Readers will gain insight on how the imagery and symbology of Nazism in popular culture has changed over time and understand how the disconnect between representations of Nazism and the historical record have developed, particularly with regard to the genocide that resulted from Nazi politics.

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Introduction: The Mundanity of Evil: Everyday Nazism in Post-War Popular Culture
CHAPTER 1 The “What Ifs?” of Nazism: Recent Alternate Histories of the Third Reich
CHAPTER 2 Hitler as Our Devil?: Nazi Germany in Mainstream Media
CHAPTER 3 From Satan to Hitler: Theological and Historical Evil in C. S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, and J. K. Rowling
CHAPTER 4 Hitler Is Fun: Sixty Years of Nazism in Humorous Comics
CHAPTER 5 Holocaust Pornography: Profaning the Sacred in Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS
CHAPTER 6 Wonder Woman against the Nazis: Gendering Villainy in DC Comics
CHAPTER 7 Conspirator or Collaborator? Nazi Arab Villainy in Popular Fiction
CHAPTER 8 “Evil’s Spreading, Sir—and It’s Not Just Over There!”: Nazism in Buffy and Angel
CHAPTER 9 “Keep Feeling Fasci/nation”: Neofolk and the Search for Europe
CHAPTER 10 Where Does Evil Sit in the Classroom? Problematizing Teaching about Hitler, Nasty Nazis, and the Holocaust
CHAPTER 11 From Hagiography to Iconoclasm: The Nazi Magazine Signal and Its Mediations
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