Fellow Tribesmen: The Image of Native Americans, National Identity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany: 19 (Studies in German History, 19) - Hardcover

"This is an excellent study of how the German infatuation with North American Indians, 'Indianthusiasm,' was used to promote Nazi ideology during the so-called 'Third Reich.' - [The author] goes far beyond [previous studies] in the depth and acumen of his archival research and theoretical grounding - his observations help us to perceive and analyze German Nazi ideology and some of its surprising internal contradictions in a far more comprehensive and complex way than before." * Hartmut Lutz, University of Greifswald "[This book] is a useful analysis of how and why the images of Native Americans played a role in explaining the rise of the Nazi party to power - Usbeck's look at the connection between the German images of Native Americans and their own largely imagined unified past should be a revelation to American readers - it is wonderfully succinct, erudite, well-written and thought-provoking." * Tom Holm, University of Arizona

Frank Usbeck is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Technische Universitat Dresden. He earned his PhD at Leipzig University. His thesis was awarded the Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies in 2011. He co-edited the collection Participating Audiences, Imagined Public Spheres (2012) and has published a number of essays on Indian imagery in Germany and on ceremonial storytelling in American soldier weblogs. Usbeck is member of the Dresden-Leipzig research initiative "Selbst-bewusste Erzahlungen."