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What to Do With Germany (Classic Reprint) by Louis Nizer (2015-09-27) Taschenbuch
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“Suspecting in my own case (that I did not think like a German) I have of late confined my reading on this topic almost exclusively to German sources. I have been taking a course on Metzsche and Treitschke . . .”
(This is John Adams grandson, overseer of Harvard)
“The result has been most disastrous. It has utterly destroyed my capacity for judicial consideration. I can only say that if what I find in those sources is a capacity to think Germanically, I would rather cease thinking at all. It is the absolute negation of everything which in the past tended to the elevation of mankind, and the installation in place thereof, of a system of thorough dishonesty, emphasized by brutal stupidity. There is a low cunning about it, too, which is to me in the last degree repulsive."
Remember this is a descendant of New England Puritan’s; stunned, overwhelmed, disturbed!
What about German’s absorbing this since childhood?
Nizer presents the philosophical/intellectual basis for German decisions. I think this ideological, even religious, basis of the wartime ‘Kultur’ - is often overlooked. Nizer devotes pages developing, explaining the source of this thinking. For example . . .
“The war lust of the German people is composed not only of a philosophy for conquest, but of a race theory to justify it. There is an additional ingredient, one that applies a mystical religious quality and transforms the political movement into a fanatical pagan rite. Richard Wagner did not invent this ingredient. It existed in the folklore of the German people for many centuries. But he gave it palatable and popular form in brilliant music and story. To the rest of the world Wagner's operas were merely artistic fantasy. To the Germans they were reality, even if only unconscious. Hitler has acknowledged his indebtedness to Wagner. In Mein Kampf, he writes:
"At the age of twelve I saw the first opera of my life, Wagner's Lohengrin. I was captivated at once.’’
Nizer goes on to analyze Wagner and his impact on German thought. Well done.
Includes Nietzsche . . .
“German war lust is thus based not only on the spurious profundity of war philosophy, and racial superiority, but upon the revival of pagan epics. What was at first a base combative instinct flourished through philosophical, scientific and then mystical stages into a full flowered religious-political program of world conquest. Nietzsche wrote the new German Biblical creed:
"Ye have heard how in old times it was said, Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth, but I say unto you, Blessed are the valiant, for they shall make the earth their throne. And ye have heard man say, Blessed are the poor in spirit; but I say unto you, Blessed are the great in soul and the free in spirit, for they shall enter into Valhalla. And ye have heard men say, Blessed are the peacemakers; but I say unto you, Blessed are the warmakers, for they shall be called, if not the children of Jahva, the children of Odin, who is greater than Jahva."
‘Greater than Jehovah’! Wow!
Explains the attack on the Jews as . . .
“Only by subduing Christianity could the Germans launch their campaign of complete paganism. Their attacks upon the Jews served a quadruple purpose. They provided a characteristically brutal outlet for the race theory; they afforded a haven against whom revenge could be taken for an imagined stab in the back; they gave an opportunity for plunder and robbery, which was later to be extended to whole nations ; but most important, they were an attack on orthodox religion. In this instance the Nazis shrewdly picked the most vulnerable sector, for they counted on Christians to be dulled by their own prejudices into not recognizing that this was the beginning of an offensive against them.’’
‘Remove Christianity and install paganism’!
Heine was a leading German poet/writer of the nineteenth century . . .
“Heine warned them:
"You have more to fear from Germany set free than from all the Holy Alliance with all the Croats and Cossacks . . . We do not hate one another for external trifles, like you, as, for instance, ruffled vanity, or an epigram, or a visiting card not returned. No, we hate in our enemies the deepest, the most essential part in them—that is, thought itself."
What an amazing insight. So correct. From a famous German thinker!
This work presented 1940’s. Most of Nizer’s book is focused on policy and political decisions needed in the post war world. This, obviously, is now obsolete and irrelevant.
Nevertheless, I found his synthesis of the ideas and scholars whose influence rocked the twentieth century fascinating.
Ideas are important.
Christianity under attack.
Paganism significant.
Racism influences many.
Well . . . .