[Machine Translation] What made people fascinated by Nazism? This book reveals the surprising nature of the public's fascination with Nazism through a discourse analysis of films, novels, and other works produced after World War II. The Third Reich is reconstructed through memory and imagination in films such as "The Brave and the Damned," "Lily Marlene," "The Tin Drum," and "Hitler, or German Cinema. The author, a leading scholar on the Holocaust, argues that the "perfect synthesis" of kitsch and death is the essence of the aesthetics of the Third Reich. This is a classic book that continues to influence the study of Nazism.