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Following France´s crushing defeat in June 1940, the Nazis moved forward with plans to reorganize a European continent now largely under Hitler s heel. While Germany s military power would set the agenda, several among the Nazi elite argued that permanent German hegemony required something more: a pan-European cultural empire that would crown Hitler s wartime conquests. At a time when the postwar European project is under strain, Benjamin G. Martin brings into focus a neglected aspect of Axis geopolitics, charting the rise and fall of Nazi-fascist soft power in the form of a nationalist and anti-Semitic new ordering of European culture.

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