Weimar Republic—a concept which made the new woman into something androgynous and equal to men, socially speaking—Hoch set out to mock the idea and deconstruct it while also asserting her own feminism. She embraced the type of “punk rock” spirit of Berber—unleashing on the modern century with everything inside of her. Instead of doing it through dance and performance in the cabarets of Berlin, Hoch did it through art—that, of course, would end up catching the eye of the Third Reich.
Hoch also spent time working for the publishing company… Continue Reading...
ideology directly opposed to that of the communists. During the Weimar Republic between the wars, for example, Jewish influence had been particularly pronounced in Germany (Paxton, 2005). Had the Jewish influence, the decimation of Germany, and the destruction of the country’s culture not been the case, Hitler would have had no reason for rising up. The communists wanted revolution; the Fascists sought preservation. The Blackshirts in Italy, the NSDAP in Germany, and the extreme Right in France (unsuccessful, however, in achieving its goal), all illustrated that Fascism was a movement of a mass of people against a countering trend by… Continue Reading...
