...Peter Knight New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Outrageous Conspiracy Theories: Popular and Offi cial Responses to 9/11 in Germany and the United States Peter Knight Opinion polls conducted in Germany in 2003...

... a propaganda fi lm director for the German Foreign Offi ce’s News Department.12 Shortly thereafter he hired Grosz as a creative assistant, and by midsummer of 1918 Herzfelde had joined 11. P. H., “Da-Da,” 74. Here I reference the early “cinema of attractions,” analyzed in this essay’s third...

... published Pfarrerblock 25487 (The Priests’ Block 25487), a diary-like account of his camp experiences, including his strange nine-day “furlough.”1 The offi cial reason for his temporary release was the death of his mother, but it was also used as an opportunity to ask him to collaborate...

... the disorderly reality and probed taboo topics such as local resistance to refugees from the east and, despite offi cial support for female emancipation, the tension between independent women and a prudish party hierarchy.15 In addition to the general theme of collectivization linking the play...

... Hans served as medical offi cer. Hans, should he survive the war, was to give the letter to the captain’s wife. Susanne goes to see Brückner’s wife in Hans’s place and learns that Brückner is still alive and running a thriving factory. Brückner is proud of what he has achieved as a self-made...

... or John Portmanʼs Bonaventure hotel as allegories of this newly globalized space and the multiple dislocations it entails, he perhaps overlooks some of the actual properties of more literal corporate spaces, like offi ce buildings. These spaces were produced by new organi- zational regimes...

... and of the American Institute of Architects just two years later. Thus, when his employees humorously congratulated Bonatz on his fi fti- eth birthday by declaring his offi ce a “world-class architectural bureau” (Büro von Weltrang) in 1927, it was certainly not meant to be purely ironic.6 Meanwhile, Bonatz’s...

...” (“A German Requiem,” 1949) is the unrepentant monologue of a Nazi offi cer about to be executed, and George Steiner concludes his novel The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. (1981) with a fi rst-person self-justifi catory rant by Adolf Hitler himself. David Grossman’s New German Critique 106, Vol. 36...

... guarded by armed offi - cers. Though Haghi’s ultimate political or fi nancial interests remain unclear, his conspiracy obviously concerns international politics and the rather vague idea of “world domination”—the default telos of modern conspiracies. He steals a secret Japanese treaty, thereby...

... of collapse.”23 But while she was in Germany, the economic depression and political turmoil com- peted for her attention with Weimar’s precarious artistic experimentation. Flanner was attracted to the work of Max Reinhardt, director at the famous Deutsches Theater, who, until the Nazis offi cially...

... it broke box-offi ce records for the small repertory movie theater Film Forum, grossing $24,220, despite its consider- able length, some two and a half hours, and the fact that it was shown in the original with subtitles. Nationally, audience attendance remained unusually high for the following...

... the fascist personality.2 But concern with sex was not just limited to subconscious processes during the Third Reich. Tor- sten Reters, building on the work of Hans Dieter Schäfer and others, presents a thorough study of the offi cial discourses surrounding heterosexual relations under the Nazis...

... of German culture, the offi cial literary-theoretical position on heritage posited the bourgeois classical heritage, in form and, to a certain extent, in content, as the prehistory of contemporary socialist art, implying a continuity rather than a rupture in the transition to the social- ist state...

... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Eva Horn Brainwashed! Conspiracy Theory and Ideology in the Postwar United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Timothy Melley Outrageous Conspiracy Theories: Popular and Offi cial Responses to 9/11 in Germany and the United States . . . . . . . . 165...

... that make up the image are rendered invisible by the totality of the image itself—as completely independent of the individuals that live in it and to explore it as “a whole, in a body of offi cials, which as such consists of a defi - nite ordering of ‘positions,’ of preordination of performances, which...

.... High-ranking Air Force offi cers gave statements in captivity alleging U.S. war crimes against Korea and China. Evidence emerged that U.S. troops engaged in criminal behavior detrimental to their compatriots. While most veterans recanted their confessions upon repatriation, some did not, and oth...

... Ulbricht on patrol along the Berlin Wall when a fugitive is shot at and arrested. Ulbricht asks Thälmann, “You know something better?” “No” is the answer.6 Another famous martyr of the Left, Rosa Luxemburg, is then escorted past by the Ger- man army offi cers who murdered her, to the accompaniment...

...James Schmidt New German Critique, Inc. 2007 The Eclipse of Reason and the End of the Frankfurt School in America James Schmidt On May 22, 1947, Leo Lowenthal stepped out of an elevator on the sixth fl oor of the New York offi ce...

... of “researchers” or believers.10 Because they exist outside institutionally respectable or academic knowledge but in a uni- verse parallel to it, such subcultures derive status from their marginality— they thrive on offi cial condemnation. Conspiracy theory is also one of the most powerful genres of fic...

... 3.44: “Nam si omnia facienda sint quae amici velint, non amicitiae tales sed coniurationes putandae sint” (For if one must do everything his friends wish, then such must not be considered friendships but conspiracies). See Andrew R. Dyck, A Commentary on Cicero, De Offi ciis (Ann Arbor: University...