Word: volk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin, dress designers put on a fashion show, complete with crazy spring hats. Wrote the Socialist paper Das Volk: "One year ago . . . sirens used to scream and bombs brought death. . . . Now it is over. . . . Reconstruction work in our destroyed Germany will advance...
...proletariat, the Nazis offered the dictatorship of the Nazi Party. In place of Bolshevism's scapegoat, the bourgeois, the Nazis offered the Jew. In place of internationalism, the Nazis offered fanatical German nationalism. In place of one dominating class (the proletariat), the Nazis offered the people (Volk...
...books is not an emotional tirade against Nazi idealism. Instead it points out that these "nihilists" have a very definite set of values. The values of "metapolitics" are the "intertwining of four strands, Romanticism, the "science" of racism, a vague economic socialism, and Volk collectivity," Wagner is analyzed to show his peculiar position as forerunner of the Nazis. Their idealism is precisely the "soaring into metapolitics" Wagner wrote of. This theory of Wagner Viereck holds in common with Jacques Barzun and Reinhold Niebuhr, and is backed up by Hitler's own words. Nazi metapolitics, however, though a definite creed, runs...
...soul mate whose name was long coupled romantically with the Führer's. This year's Wagnerian Festival was in the spirit of Hitler's Europe: no admission tickets, fashionable guests or foreigners, but a popular lecture before each opera to explain to das Volk what Wagner is all about. It was Hitler's gift to the nation, and he commanded 70,000 industrial workers, farmers and soldiers to enjoy it before it closed at the end of July. Last week he sat among munitions workers and disabled soldiers who had been brought to Bayreuth...