Nazi literature, poetry, films or other artistic works?

by busybee2005

I AM NOT A NAZI SYMPATHIZER. (TL/DR at the bottom)

I believe it is necessary to preface this post as it might become controversial and I don't mean it to be. In school one of the most talked about topics in history class has always been WW2 and in particular the Holocaust. We read dozens of books from Holocaust survivors like "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank and the "Night" series by Elie Wiesel. We were also given memoirs by American soldiers like "If you survive" by George Wilson and excerpts from journals and newspaper interviews regarding their experiences in the war. Something I eventually noticed is that we never read any primary source material from Nazis or even former Nazis reflecting on the war. Now, my first assumption was that the topic was simply too controversial for school and I decided to research on my own to try and discover more material created by them in order to understand their nature, but I found it difficult to find anything aside from the obvious: "Mein Kampf". Literature was not the only thing that was difficult to find. I looked for any cultural creation by Nazis and could find almost nothing except a book of poetry from one young Nazi soldier who praised the regime and demonstrated his almost God like worship of Adolf Hitler. My main question is

  1. Where are all the books, pieces of art, movies (even propaganda films) or any other cultural or artistic creations that came out of a period of rule that lasted over a decade (not even counting the lead up to the take over of the Nazi party)
  2. If they simply did not create anything, is that simply because of that type of authoritarian governent, the massive war they faced or something unique to the Nazis in history?

Tl;DR: where are all the cultural creations of the Nazi party?

sketchydavid

Though it doesn’t get into what ultimately became of Nazi books, films, and artwork after the war, you should definitely take a look at u/commiespaceinvader’s in-depth response to Were there any truly talented Nazi artists, musicians, or writers who would be renowned if not for their political views?, where he discusses and gives examples of Nazi art and aesthetics, and talks about what happened after the war to some of the artists associated with the ideology.