The swastika and the stage: German theatre and society, 1933-1945

Introduction: why write a book about the theatre in the Third Reich?

Weimar: politics in the playhouse

Visions of a national rebirth: völkisch theatre reform

The uses of the past: from the Thingspiel to the Nazi history plays

Stages of aggression: theatre and the 'ethnic struggle'

'The stream of heredity': theatre in the racial state

The faith of our forefathers: theatre and the Nazi assault on Christianity

The manacled muse: theatre and political domination

'The final redoubt': theatre and propaganda

The age of Mephistopheles: theatre and power.