Category Archives: Germany

What Turned Germans Into Nazis?

Posted on June 15, 2020 by Luke Ford

Andrew Stuttaford writes for the WSJ: Mr. Fritzsche examines how, during the party’s years in opposition, the Nazis were able to broaden their support away from the original ideological core to voters who, for example, just thought that “something” had … Continue reading →

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The Other God that Failed: Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Luke Ford

Summary: “Why did some of the “best and brightest” of Weimar intellectuals advocate totalitarian solutions to the problems of liberal democratic, capitalist society? How did their “radical conservatism” contribute to the rise of National Socialism? What roles did they play … Continue reading →

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Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany’s Winter Campaign, 1941-1942

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Luke Ford

Highlights from the new David Stahel book: * According to Kühne, the nature of German comradeship at the front incorporated certain “homoerotic” feelings, which must be firmly dissociated from what contemporaries saw as the reviled act of manifest homosexuality. In … Continue reading →

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‘Martin Heideger and the Space of the Political’

Posted on August 18, 2019 by Luke Ford
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Operation Typhoon: Hitler’s March on Moscow, October 1941 by David Stahel

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Luke Ford

Here are excerpts from this book: * …Germany found it extremely difficult to operate new agents in the Soviet Union. The training programme for agents had in fact been rapidly expanded in 1941, and attempts were made to use agents … Continue reading →

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