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...America and Europe," he has decided, "have come to a final parting of the roads." Separated by an unbridgeable "spiritual chasm," America and Germany today represent to Author Hauser not only the "extremes of wealth and poverty" but also the extremes of decadence and the Spartan spirit. Readers of The German Talks Back, which is partly autobiographical, will catch on to the manner of man Author Hauser is when they recognize that ever since childhood he has arbitrarily split his worlds into "decadent" and "Spartan" halves...
Phony Culture. Author Hauser was raised in old-world Weimar, home of Goethe and Schiller, and one of German culture's most sacred shrines. Academic, humanistic Weimar prided itself on representing the exact opposite of German militarism. But to young Hauser, Weimar's "phony cultural activities" were the epitome of decadence. When World War I broke out, he and his school friends were deliriously happy at the thought of "action, motor cars and planes, dynamic life...
...rock of religious faith, that it demanded austerity, unflinching loyalty and toil. Prussianism in action was "the militant church," and those who sought to crush it attacked "the fundamental values and virtues of every monastic order in the world." The Arrogant Americans. In the black post-War I years, Hauser learned to hate both the ineffectual democracy of the Weimar Republic and the luxury-ridden democracy of the U.S. Like many un employed Germans, he lived in flop houses, sought rest and warmth in movie houses...
...Soon Hauser joined the Tat-Kreis (Action Group), haven of "the young generation of the German Right." Its main plank: "That democracy had proved a failure and would never be anything but a failure in Germany." Today, twelve years after Hitler's rise to power, Author Hauser's views are still the same. In the new Germany to which he is returning he does not expect to find much more freedom of expression than existed in Nazi Germany. But he believes that the new Germany will be preferable to the U.S. His reasons...
...Germans are well aware, says Author Hauser, of what has happened to America. If America attempts to impose upon them a democracy which they consider to be a fraud, the result will be rebellion and chaos. Nor will the Germans, sitting among the ruins of their devastated cities, recognize the right of the builders of the Flying Fortress to sit in judgment over them...