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...Europe, Viereck began to accumulate the material which resulted in "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...
Returning to America in 1938, Viereck made public his thesis concerning Nazlism and the historical character whom he considers to be its spiritual ancestor, Richard Wagner. Thomas Mann was attracted by this new philosophical discovery, and through his efforts, Viereck was commissioned by knopf Publishers to enlarge his findings into "Metapolitics...
Before the war, Viereck was active against U. S. isolation, publishing interventionist articles in the Atlantic Monthly, Common Sense, and other periodicals. Today his ideas are spread throughout Nazi Europe by the powerful New York, NBC short wave radio. "Metapolitics has become Verboten in Hitler-dominated countries...
...Hitler is exterminating the German identity as well as attempting to kill off believers in opposing ways of life," Viereck maintained. He added that Hitler makes those opposing his ambitions his cannon targets, while those who follow him become his cannon fodder...
...line with his views on totalitarian issues, Viereck holds a certain reverence for the great figures in American history, past and present. Carl Schurz, a German immigrant who rose to become Secretary of State under President Hayes, is his particular idol. Viereck's book is dedicated to Schurz, as proof that the same German type that is misled in Europe can become an integral part of the American national pattern if the emotional environs of the old country are removed...