Art, Ideology and Economics in Nazi Germany. The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts.

In Art, Ideology and Economics in Nazi Germany. The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts (Chapel Hill/London: U. of North Carolina P., 1993; pp. x + 233. $38.45), Alan E. Steinweis provides a comparative account of the three chambers which formed part of the Reichskulturkammer (Chamber of Culture) whose members - musicians, actors, painters and sculptors - were central to the artistic life of the Third Reich. Although Steinweis covers those aspects of the Reichskulturkammer's activities about which much is already known - namely its role in purging Germany's artistic community of those whom the Nazi regime deemed as undesirable on racial or political grounds, …