Description Selling Under the Swastika is the first in-depth study of Commercial Advertising in the Third Reich.
She is the author of Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1929-1933 (2004)..
Swett is associate professor of history at Mc Master University.
About the author Pamela E.
Furthermore, Selling Under the Swastika demonstrates that Commercial actors at all levels, from traveling sales representatives to company executives and ad designers, enjoyed relative independence as they sought to enhance their professional status and boost profits through the manipulation of National Socialist messages.
She argues that advertisements helped to normalize the concept of a "racial community," and that individual consumption played a larger role in the Nazi worldview than is often assumed.
Historian Pamela Swett explores the extent of the transformation of the German ads industry from the internationally infused republican era that preceded 1933 through the relative calm of the mid-1930s and into the war years.
While scholars have focused extensively on the political propaganda that infused daily life in Nazi Germany, they have paid little attention to the role played by Commercial ads and sales Culture in legitimizing and stabilizing the regime.
Description Selling Under the Swastika is the first in-depth study of Commercial Advertising in the Third Reich
