Nazi folk ideology alienated Germans more than modernist art did

Evidence

The same people who always had blamed intellectual cliques for modernism in the arts, remained themselves a clique whose folk ideas proved to be even more distant from the life of the people than the most esoteric products of expressionism and surrealism. Paradoxical as it sounds, the Germans were more willing to fight Hitler’s battles than to listen to the plays and operas of his lackeys. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1646

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to later debates about why ordinary Germans supported Nazism despite its cultural distance from their actual lives. — connects to: German folk standards proved farther from the people than modernist art — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1646