by George L. Mosse
© 1966 by George L. Mosse
Translations by Salvator Attanasio and others

 

 

The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Gods & Beasts -- The Nazis & the Occult, by Dusty Sklar
Germany Awakes: Growth, Battle and Victory of the NSDAP (Deutschland Erwacht: Werden, Kampf und Sieg der NSDAP)
De Monarchia of Dante Alighieri, edited with translation and notes by Aurelia Henry
Vishvakarman, by Wikipedia
Summa Contra Gentiles, by Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Confessions of St. Augustine, by St. Augustine of Hippo, translated and edited by Albert C. Outler, Ph.D., D.D.
St. Augustin's City of God, edited by Philip Schaff, D.D., LL.D
The Practice of the Ancient Turkish Freemasons: The Key to the Understanding of Alchemy, by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorf

Table of Contents:

• Back Cover

• Advisory Board

• Acknowledgments

• Editor's Note

• INTRODUCTION

• I. HITLER SETS THE TONE

  • Editor's Introduction

  • FROM CULTURE AS THE FAITH IN AN IDEAL REICH TO ITS DIFFUSION AMONG THE MASSES

    • The Power of Ideals

    • The Aryan as Custodian of Culture

    • The State Is Not an End But a Means

    • The Jew Has No Culture

    • The Necessity of Propaganda

    • How Hitler Viewed the Masses

    • Education Must Be Based on Ideals

    • Education, Instinct, and Will

  • HITLER DEFINES CULTURE IN DEFINING ART

    • The Cultural Renascence

• 2. WHAT SORT OF A REVOLUTION?

  • Editor's Introduction

  • THE GOOD FIGHT

    • Here Marched the New Germany, by FRIEDRICH JOACHIM KLAEHN

    • A Meeting-Hall Brawl, by KURT MASSMANN

  • THE BONDS OF FAMILY

    • National Socialism Has Restored the Family, by HANNS ANDERLAHN

    • The German Volk Is an Interlacing of Families, by LUDWIG LEONHARDT

    • Marriage, Morality, and Property, by HERMANN PAULL

  • THE IDEAL OF WOMANHOOD

    • The Tasks of Women, by ADOLF HITLER

    • Emancipation from the Emancipation Movement, ALFRED ROSENBERG

    • Domestic Diligence from Blood and Soil

    • The Female Bird, by JOSEPH GOEBBELS

    • Women That We Can Love

    • Frau Goebbels on German Women

    • The Blond Craze

    • A Shiny Nose and the German Nation

    • Faith and Beauty

    • Right Conduct

    • The Honor Cross of the German Mother

    • The Woman Student

    • Against the Political Woman, by ENGELBERT HUBER

  • THE SOCIAL REALITY

    • Does the Five O'Clock Tea Suit Our Time?

    • Fairytale Scenes on Peacock Island

    • Beautiful Gowns at the Annual Press Ball

    • Wanted: Croupiers

• 3. THE FOUNDATION: RACISM

  • Editor's Introduction

  • The Nordic Race as "Ideal Type", by HANS F. K. GUNTHER

  • Racial Soul, Landscape, and World Domination, by LUDWIG FERDINAND CLAUSS

  • The Earth-Centered Jew Lacks a Soul, by ALFRED ROSENBERG

  • Heredity and Racial Biology for Students, by JAKOB GRAF

  • The New Biology: Training in Racial Citizenship, by PAUL BROHMER

  • To Preserve the Strength of the Race: Compulsory Sterilization, by ERICH RISTOW

• 4. BUILDING MYTHS AND HEROES

  • Editor's Introduction

  • Nietzsche and National Socialism, by ALFRED BAEUMLER

  • A Soldier Believes in Plain Talk, by ERNST ROHM

  • Michael: A German Fate, by JOSEPH GOEBBELS

  • Germany Must Live, by FRIEDRICH BUBENDEN

  • The Difference Between Generations, by HANNS JOHST

  • Fritz Todt: Contemporary Hero, by EDUARD SCHONLEBEN

  • Frederick the Great: Prussian Hero, by WILHELM IHDE

  • The Diary of an SA Man's Bride, by GUDRUN STREITER

  • On Festivities in the School, by HERMANN KLAUSS

• 5. TOWARD A TOTAL CULTURE

  • Editor's Introduction

  • Intellectuals Must Belong to the People, by HERMANN BURTE

  • The Birth of Intellectuals

  • Streicher the Intellectual

  • A Balance Is Necessary

  • The German Peasant Formed German History, by R. WALTHER DARRE

  • Freedom and Organization, by JOSEPH GOEBBELS

  • On the National Responsibility of Publishers, by ADOLF SPEMANN

  • Goebbels Forbids Art Criticism

  • What Is German in German Art?, by KURT KARL EBERLEIN

  • The Poet Summoned by History, by HEINRICH ZILLICH

  • Wulfe's Manor: Two Episodes in a Peasant's Life, by JOSEFA BERENS-TOTENOHL

  • A Rowdy as Hero: From an Anti-Jewish Novel, by TUDEL WELLER

  • Events at the Prussian State Theater, by ECKART VON NASO

  • Playbills of the Herne City Theater, 1936-1940

  • The Winter Program of the German Radio, 1936

  • Fundamental Features of Radio Programming, 1938

  • German Films for Venice, 1938

  • The Film Public Is Not So Stupid

• 6. SCIENCE AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM

  • Editor's Introduction

  • The Limits of Science, by PHILIPP LENARD

  • Respect for Facts and Aptitude for Exact Observation Reside in the Nordic Race, by JOHANNES STARK

  • Nature Presupposes a Spiritual Disposition, by BRUNO THURING

  • Psychotherapy and Political World View, by KURT GAUGER

  • The Physician Must Come to Terms with the Irrational, by HANNS LOHR

• 7. CHRISTIANITY

  • Editor's Introduction

  • The Fuhrer Bequeathed to Me by the Lord

  • Christ in the Community of Blood and Fate

  • The Task of Proclaiming Christ among the German People

  • National Socialist and Christian Concepts Are Incompatible, by MARTIN BORMANN

  • The Epistle of St. Paul Is in Error

  • To Capture Youth

  • Judaism, Christianity, and Germany, by CARDINAL FAULHABER

  • Nurses and Philosophy

• 8. THE KEY: EDUCATION OF YOUTH

  • Editor's Introduction

  • INSIDE THE SCHOOL

    • To Be Part of a Movement!, by INGE SCHOLL

    • The Parents Abdicate, by PAUL OESTREICH

    • Skepticism and Participation, by ILSE MCKEE

    • The Lively Youngster

    • The Test, by L. GRUNBERG

    • Physical Education and National Socialism

    • Ten Calories More Character, by HANS SCHEMM

    • The Fellowship of Battle

    • Racial Instruction and the National Community

    • Do Not Stand Apart!, by LUCIE ALEXANDER

    • Can Youth Be National Socialist?, by RUDOLPH RAMLOW

  • A SCHOOLBOOK SAMPLER

    • The Fuhrer of Elementary-School Children

    • From the Oak Tree to Certain Victory, by WILHELM STECKELINGS

    • The Sun as a Symbol of Dedicated Youth, by BALDUR VON SCHIRACH

    • A Flight Through the Storm and Hitler's Mission, by OTTO DIETRICH

    • Essays with Right Answers

  • THE PRESSURES OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL

    • The Hitler Youth, by BALDUR VON SCHIRACH

    • The Development of the SS Man

  • THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY

    • The Renovation of the Academic Community, by GERHARD KRUGER

    • Work Is Future, by WEINER BEUMELBURG

    • Admission to the Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Berlin

    • New Courses for a New Reich

    • The Nature of Academic Freedom, by WALTER SCHULTZE

    • Jewish Graduates Are Numbers, Not Persons

• 9. WHAT IS THE STATE AND WHO ARE ITS CITIZENS?

  • Editor's Introduction

  • Public Law in a New Context, by CARL SCHMITT

  • Civil Rights and the Natural Inequality of Man, by WILHELM STUCKART AND HANS GLOBKE

  • The Reich Citizenship Law

  • The Jew Is Outside the Law, by WALTHER BUCH

  • Anchoring the Civil Service in the Nation, by ROLAND FREISLER

• 10. WORKERS AND SHOPKEEPERS

  • Editor's Introduction

  • THE WORKER: IDEAL AND REALITY

    • Statistics on Occupational Composition of Members of the Nazi Party

    • The Struggle for the Achievement of German Socialism

    • The Correct Attitude Toward Work

    • Plant Managers -- This Must Not Be!

    • A Wage Freeze for Stenographers

    • The Conversion of "Comrade" Muller, by WALTER DACH

  • THE BILL IS PRESENTED

    • What the German People Pay in Taxes, 1939

    • The Cost of Living, 1933-1937

    • They Who Serve Are Well Paid

    • The Situation of the German Retail Trade

    • Throttling the Retail Trade

    • The Price Police

    • A Butcher Resists

• 11. THE ASSUMPTION OF POWER

  • Editor's Introduction

  • Our Town under the Swastika, by OTTO MICHAEL KNAB

  • The Changed Tempo of Life: The City of Herne

  • The Nazis Take Over Cologne

  • Little Things Create Pressures, by HERMANN STRESAU

  • Vanishing Friends, by ERICH EBERMAYER

• Illustrations

  1. "The Four Elements," a painting which hung over the mantelpiece in Hitler's house in Munich

  2. The ideal Aryan family as represented on a calendar [From Kaknder des rassenpolitischen Amtes der NSDAP, 1938.

  3. An example of the kind of poster art that played an important role in Nazi propaganda [From Anschlage, deutsche Plakate als Dokumente der Zeit (Munich, 1963)]

  4. The Honor Cross of the German Mother [From Das Jahr IV (Berlin, 1939)]

  5. Adolf Ziegler's "The Judgment of Paris," illustrating ideal Aryan types [From Die Kunst im dritten Reich (1939)]

  6. "Awakening" by Richard Klein, which was shown at the 1937 Exhibition of German Art [From Grosse deutsche Kunstausstellung 1937]

  7. A painting of the ideal German girl [From N. S. Frauenvarte, Heft I, Jahrg. 8 (July 1939)]

  8. A film advertisement, 1936 [From Schleisische Tageszeitung, November 16, 1936 (Wiener Library Clipping Collection).)

  9. Arno Brecker's sculpture representing an idealized Germanic hero [From Grosse deutsche Kunstausstellung 1942]

  10. "The Guardian" by Arno Brecker, one of Hitler's favorite sculptors [From Franz Rodens, Vom Wesen deutscher Kunst (Berlin, 1941)]

  11. A mural idealizing active youth [From Die Kunst im dritten Reich (1939)]

  12. Works by George Grosz and Elk Eber, a confrontation between "degenerate art" and "true" Nazi art [From(Deutsche Kunst und entartete Kunst, edited by Adolf Dresler (Munich, 1928)]

  13. A peasant house built after 1933, but in the style of the Middle Ages [From Die neue Heimat (Munich, 1940)]

  14. A "shrine of honor" of the Hitler Youth; a faithful copy of an ancient German hall [From Die neue Heimat (Munich, 1940)]

  15. The House of German Art in Munich, designed by Hitler's favorite architect, Paul Ludwig Troost [From Franz Rodens, Vom Wesen deutscher Kunst (Berlin, 1941).]

  16. A painting by Adolf Hitler [From N. S. Frauenwarte, Heft III, Jahrg. 6 (August 1937)]

  17. Hitler as the "friend of children" [From Fibel fur die Grundschule (Gutersloth, 1935)]

  18. German school children in uniform [From NSDAP Standarten Kalender 1939.]

  19. German girls in the dress of the Bronze Age [From N. S. Frauenhuch (Wiener Library Photographic Archives).]

  20. An open-air theater in the kind of romantic setting popular under the Third Reich [From A Nation Builds (New York: German Information Library, 1940).]

  21. The actor Werner Krauss in the 1940 film Jew Suss [From H. H. Wollenberg, Fifty Years of German Film (London, 1948)]

  22. The actor Lothar Muthel as Schlageter, in the famous Nazi drama of the same name [From Berliner Illustrierte (1933), No. 17]

  23. A mythological painting of Hitler speaking to his early followers [From Grosse deutsche Kunstausstellung 1937, p. 48.]

  24. Monumental buildings designed as a setting for mass meetings and parades at Nuremberg [From Die Kunst im dritten Reich (1937)]

  25. An advertisement exhorting the people to observe the weekly "one pot" meal [From Ewiges Deutschland, Heft III, Jahrg. 4 (March 1939)]

  26. Hitler addressing a Party Day meeting in Nuremberg, 1935 [From Leni Riefenstahl, Hinter den Kulissen des Reichsparteitag
      Films (Munich, 1935)]