The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture

Eastern Front romanticism thus has cultural as well as intellectual matrices that are a good deal more complex than Smelser and Davis acknowledge. It does not denigrate this work to say that it is incomplete. Nor is it inappropriate to warn of "traffic-light syndrome": the Nazis used traff...

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Published inCentral European History Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 375 - 377
Main Author Showalter, Dennis
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.06.2009
Subjects
Cold War
Communism
Germany
Memory
Nazi era
Nonfiction
Popular culture
U.S.A
U.S.S.R
World War II
World War Two
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Summary:Eastern Front romanticism thus has cultural as well as intellectual matrices that are a good deal more complex than Smelser and Davis acknowledge. It does not denigrate this work to say that it is incomplete. Nor is it inappropriate to warn of "traffic-light syndrome": the Nazis used traffic lights; therefore they are everywhere eternally suspect. Availability of technical data, orders of battle, uniforms, and regalia have made the Red Army of World War II the latest thing in gamer chic and reenactor fashion. Is a warning against romanticized Communism becoming correspondingly apropos?
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ISSN:0008-9389
1569-1616
DOI:10.1017/S0008938909000491