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In our time two major revolutionary movements - Marxism and National Socialism - have left their mark upon the world. Yet, whereas Marxism is generally recognized as representing an intellectual and ideological tradition extending back for at least a century, National Socialism is not. Rather, to many, the ideological bases of National Socialism were the product of a small group of unbalanced minds. To others, the Nazi ideology was merely a propaganda tactic designed to win support of the masses. still others have found the ideas underlying National Socialism so nebulous and incomprehensible that they have dismissed them as unimportant.
In fact, though, these ideas are deeply embedded in German history. They were current - indeed, eminently respectable - among several generations of Germans prior to Hitler's rise. Strange, even demonic ideas they were, certainly - racial thought, Germanic Christianity, nature mysticism, sun worship, theosophy - but for many Germans long before the Hitler period they suggested the possibility of political and historical salvation.
In The Crisis of German Ideology, George L. Mosse traces these currents of thought through nineteenth - and twentieth-century German history, discussing the role they played and the longings they gratifies during nearly a century of German life. He reveals how the anti-liberal and anti-democratic ideology comprising these peculiarly German ideas became institutionalized in the schools, youth movements, veterans' groups, political parties; how the "German revolution" called for by the ideology's exponents was transformed by Hitler into as "anti-Jewish revolution", and how the Nazis fully assimilated these ideas into an effective political program as they rose to power.
In fact, though, these ideas are deeply embedded in German history. They were current - indeed, eminently respectable - among several generations of Germans prior to Hitler's rise. Strange, even demonic ideas they were, certainly - racial thought, Germanic Christianity, nature mysticism, sun worship, theosophy - but for many Germans long before the Hitler period they suggested the possibility of political and historical salvation.
In The Crisis of German Ideology, George L. Mosse traces these currents of thought through nineteenth - and twentieth-century German history, discussing the role they played and the longings they gratifies during nearly a century of German life. He reveals how the anti-liberal and anti-democratic ideology comprising these peculiarly German ideas became institutionalized in the schools, youth movements, veterans' groups, political parties; how the "German revolution" called for by the ideology's exponents was transformed by Hitler into as "anti-Jewish revolution", and how the Nazis fully assimilated these ideas into an effective political program as they rose to power.
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- PublisherGrosset & Dunlap
- Publication date1964
- ISBN 10 044800173X
- ISBN 13 9780448001739
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