National Socialism
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Years ago, I visited the former Gestapo headquarters in Cologne, Germany, which now houses a museum of national socialism.
From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2022
"We are stunned by the legal procedures that are threatening the existence of an outstanding institution of intellectual life," they wrote, emphasising Suhrcamp's dedication to a scholarly tradition "uncorrupted by national socialism".
From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2013
Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images With its cult of destruction and self-sacrifice, national socialism might have been designed for adolescence; Nazi party members indulged Teutonic pagan myths and sub-Wagnerian kitsch.
From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2013
In 1933, drawn by his love of Wagner, he took flight for Germany, where he moved from castle to castle as the guest of aristocrats deeply implicated in the rise of national socialism.
From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2010
From the time when national socialism began to reveal itself in Germany, he took his stand against it with perfect simplicity and calm.
From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan
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