The Cultural Roots of National Socialism

Hermann Glaser

Part 1: Culture as Faςade 1. Master Goethe 2. Potsdam is Weimar 3. Naked and Beautiful 4. Beautiful, Clean, Clear 5. The Pathos of Schiller 6. Spiesser Romanticism 7. In the Arbour 8. Of Trashy Tunes and Colportage 9. Sentiment at Home Part 2: Mythos Against Logos 1. Repulsive Intellectuals 2. Western Decadence 3. Professors and Heroes 4. Heroes, Hawkers and Democrats 5. Socialist Traitors 6. German Conservatism 7. Leadership 8. Man as Predator 9. A Gilded Race of Germans 10. Of Blood and Race 11. Blood and Soil 12. National Exaltation 13. The Word ‘German’ Part 3: Repression and Complex 1. The German Maid 2. The Maid’s Hero 3. Bier-Mug Mystique 4. Mob Romanticism 5. The Enigma of the Orient 6. Anti-Semitism 7. The Ghastly Idyll 8. Ossified Churches