Table Of ContentHazl Culture
OTHER BOOKS BY
GEORGE L. MOSSE
The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of
the Third Reich (1964)
The Culture of Western Europe (1961)
The Holy Pretence: A Study in Christianity and Reason of
State from William Perkins to John Winthrop (1957)
The Reformation (1953; 1963)
The Struggle for Sovereignty in England: From the Reign
of Queen Elizabeth to the Petition of Right (1950)
Kl
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Intellectual, Cultural
and Social Life
in the Third Reich
by GEORGE L MOSSE
Translations
by Salvator Attanasio
and others
The Universal Library
GROSSET & DUNLAP. New York
COPYRIGHT © 1966 BY GEORGE L. MOSSE
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 65-21857
UNIVERSAL LIBRARY EDITION, 1968
All Rights Reserved
PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN CANADA
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Acknowledgments
I would like to express my special gratitude to Howard Fertig, who
first suggested the making of this book and who as a sympathetic and
understanding editor did much to further its completion. Jack Lynch
proved to be a superb copy editor. Michael Ledeen helped with the
research and the finding of documents. Burton Pines aided in reading
the proofs. To all of these friends and colleagues I owe a debt of grati
tude.
Many of the documents and all of the illustrations were procured
in the Wiener Library, London; in addition, that library's collection
of newspaper clippings proved to be a treasure trove. The excellent
National Socialist collection of the University of Wisconsin Library
was also of great use in selecting the documents reproduced in this
book. In all cases, the librarians concerned were helpful beyond the
call of duty.
This book deals with Nazi culture itself; those who want a closer
look at the historical background which produced this culture are
referred to my book The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual
Origins of the Third Reich (Grosset & Dunlap, Universal Library).
Finally, it seems most fitting to dedicate this book not to any one
individual but to all men of good will who are ready to learn a lesson
for the present from the history of the past.
G.L.M.
Madison, Wisconsin
October 1965
EDITOR'S NOTE
None of the footnotes in this book were part of the
original documents; all have been supplied by the
editor. Also, in most cases, the editor is responsible
for the titles of the various selections.
Contents
INTRODUCTION xix
HITLER SETS THE TONE 1
Editor’s Introduction 1
FROM CULTURE AS THE FAITH IN AN IDEAL
REICH TO ITS DIFFUSION AMONG THE
MASSES 5
The Power of Ideals 5
The Aryan as Custodian of Culture 5
The State Is Not an End But a Means 6
The Jew Has No Culture 7
The Necessity of Propaganda 7
How Hitler Viewed the Masses 8
Education Must Be Based on Ideals 9
Education, Instinct, and Will 10
HITLER DEFINES CULTURE IN DEFINING ART 11
The Cultural Renascence 11
WHAT SORT OF A REVOLUTION? 17
Editor’s Introduction 17
THE GOOD FIGHT 24
Here Marched the New Germany 24
FRIEDRICH JOACHIM KLAEHN
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viii CONTENTS
A Meeting-Hall Brawl 27
KURT MASSMANN
THE BOfrDS OF FAMILY 30
National Socialism Has Restored the Family 30
HANNS ANDERLAHN
The German Volk Is an Interlacing of Families 34
LUDWIG LEONHARDT
Marriage, Morality, and Property 35
HERMANN PAULL
THE IDEAL OF WOMANHOOD 39
The Tasks of Women 39
ADOLF HITLER
Emancipation from the Emancipation Movement 40
ALFRED ROSENBERG
Domestic Diligence from Blood and Soil 41
The Female Bird 41
JOSEPH GOEBBELS
Women That W e Can Love 41
Frau Goebbels on German Women 42
The Blond Craze 43
A Shiny Nose and the German Nation 43
Faith and Beauty 44
Right Conduct 45
The Honor Cross of the German Mother 45
The Woman Student 46
Against the Political Woman 47
ENGELBERT HUBER
THE SOCIAL REALITY 47
Does the Five O'Clock Tea Suit Our Time? 47
Fairytale Scenes on Peacock Island 53
Beautiful Gowns at the Annual Press Ball 54
Wanted: Croupiers 55
3. THE FOUNDATION: RACISM 57
' Editor's Introduction 57
The Nordic Race as “Ideal Type" 61
HANS F. K. GÜNTHER
Racial Soul, Landscape, and World Domination 65
LUDWIG FERDINAND CLAUSS
CONTENTS ix
The Earth-Centered Jew Lacks a Soul 75
ALFRED ROSENBERG
Heredity and Racial Biology for'Students 79
JAKOB GRAF
The New Biology: Training in Racial Citizenship 81
PAUL BROHMER
To Preserve the Strength of the Race: Compulsory
Sterilization 90
ERICH RISTOW
4. BUILDING MYTHS AND HEROES 93
Editor's Introduction 93
Nietzsche and National Socialism 97
ALFRED BAEUMLER
A Soldier Believes in Plain Talk 101
ERNST ROHM
Michael: A German Fate 104
JOSEPH GOEBBELS
Germany Must Live 112
FRIEDRICH BUBENDEN
The Difference Between Generations 116
HANNS JOHST
Fritz Todt: Contemporary Hero 118
EDUARD SCHÖNLEBEN
Frederick the Great: Prussian Hero 119
WILHELM IHDE
The Diary of an SA Man's Bride 122
GUDRUN STREITER
On Festivities in the School 127
HERMANN KLAUSS
5. TOWARD A TOTAL CULTURE 133
Editor’s Introduction 133
Intellectuals Must Belong to the People 141
HERMANN BORTE
The Birth of Intellectuals 145
Streicher the Intellectual 146
A Balance Is Necessary 146
The German Peasant Formed German History 147
R. WALTHER DARRÉ
X CONTENTS
Freedom and Organization 151
JOSEPH GOEBBELS
On the National Responsibility of Publishers 159
ADOLF SPEMANN
Goebbels Forbids Art Criticism 162
What Is German in German Art? 163
KURT KARL EBERLEIN
The Poet Summoned by History 165
HEINRICH ZHXICH
Wulfe’s Manor: Two Episodes in a Peasant's Life 168
JOSEFA BERENS-TOTENOHL
A Rowdy as Hero: From an Anti-Jewish Novel 177
TÜDEL WELLER
Events at the Prussian State Theater * 185
• ECKART VON NASO
Playbills of the Heme City Theater, 1936-1940 188
The Winter Program of the German Radio, 1936 191
Fundamental Features of Radio Programming, 1938 192
German Films for Venice, 1938 194
The Film Public Is Not So Stupid 195
6. SCIENCE AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM 197
Editor's Introduction 197
The Limits of Science 201
PHILIPP LENARD
Respect for Facts and Aptitude for Exact Observation
Reside in the Nordic Race 205
JOHANNES STARK
Nature Presupposes a Spiritual Disposition 208
BRUNO THÜRING
Psychotherapy and Political World View 215
KURT GAUGER
The Physician Must Come to Terms with the Irrational 227
HANNS LÖHR
7. CHRISTIANITY 235
Editor's Introduction 235
The Führer Bequeathed to Me by the Lord 241
Christ in the Community of Blood and Fate 241
