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...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...
...full month. The account of her hair-raising northward run from New York, through the British blockade to sanctuary, came from Elbert Post, ship's cook, only Dutchman in her crew. Repatriated, he gave the story of the Bremen's, last voyage to the Amsterdam newspaper, Het Volk...
...Schaffendes Volk (Creative People) Exposition, timed to steal the thunder of the Paris Exposition and show up French "incompetence," will be opened this week (May 8) by Air Minister Colonel-General Hermann Wilhelm Goring. The Fair will publicize the aims and accomplishments of Germany's Four-Year Plan, especially such synthetic products as artificial rubber, textiles, gasoline. Also emphasized will be Germany's progress in city-planning, home-construction and horticulture. In the garden show alone will be more than a million varieties of plants and flowers...