Word: kulturized
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...shocked Nazi silence, the reverberations echoed for days. Then Hitler apparently decided that for the prestige of German Kultur the Reich's chief cultural asset should have his sulky way. The incident was hushed up. Strauss was allowed both his privacy and his birthday parties, his only punishment being the refusal of a passport to Zurich, where he planned to conduct a gala performance of his opera Elektra...
...Metapolitics." This volume differs from most works of its type in that its direct inspiration is taken from a cheap pulp magazine instead of weighty reference tomes. This inspiration led to Viereck's conception of the dual soul of the Nazi personality, the civilized German element combating the Nazi Kultur virus...
Girded like Siegfrieds, rabid Nazis had labeled evolution a British-Plutocratic-Jewish-Materialist theory. They abused it as "the theory of universal racelessness," a standing menace to Nazi racial dogma (Rasselehre). In Natur & Kultur, one Otto Muck recognized what democratic scientists had long pointed out, that "racial theory and evolutionary theory are incompatible and bluntly contradictory." So the Nazis "plugged" a different theory-a theory of creation, according to which man developed suddenly during some splendid Wagnerian cataclysm which thrust lower organisms into a new environment where only those creatures survived who modified themselves through sheer force of will power...
...which Britain and France gave away at Munich in 1938, which was mowed down in Poland in 1939, which in 1940 was pushed steadily back in the Balkans, had been established again. But the victory was more moral than military. Courage and leadership in one small Balkan nation without Kultur had brought courage, leadership and hope to free people everywhere. In streets, passers-by smiled at one another, feeling that they had been given something in common. It was as if a bell struck on a starry night in Belgrade had left its clear, sweet note ringing in the ears...
...German publication Natur und Kultur, ten authors launched violent attacks on the doctrine of organic evolution, accepted as an ABC fact by all biologists of standing in free countries. Gist of the German argument: Adolf Hitler and other splendid Aryans could not conceivably have evolved from...