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The End of Ban: Germany 1945. By Ashot Manukyan. From One Moment to the Next. Nazism vanished at once after the death of Hitler Hitler’s propaganda specialists on “war beyond the war” The Regime’s leaders and functionaries Military defeat resulted to an end. Hitler.
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The End of Ban: Germany 1945 By Ashot Manukyan
From One Moment to the Next • Nazism vanished at once after the death of Hitler • Hitler’s propaganda specialists on “war beyond the war” • The Regime’s leaders and functionaries • Military defeat resulted to an end.
Hitler • Hitler thought of history as a kind of hall of fame • His understanding of the nature of greatness • Habit of thinking in absolutes (sharp alternatives) • Subordinating everything to his own goals
The Salvation of the World • Hitler referred to himself as “Europe’s last chance” • Aside from Europe no other continent counts • Asia, Africa, America, democratic ideologies • Hitler, as a figure of the democratic era • “soulless” American capitalism, “inhuman” Russian Bolshevism • Third-force
Hitler’s Thoughts • Occupy the whole continent with Germany as its center • “It could not be conquered by charm and persuasiveness. I had to rape it in order to have it” • He saw Germany either creating an empire, or “to close her existence… as a second Holland and a second Switzerland”“to vanish from the earth or serve others as a slave nation” • “to force the German people, who are hesitating to confront their destiny, to take the road to greatness”
What Was Taken • Germans were alienated from politics and oriented toward private concerns and goals. • Hitler’s tendency to think heroically rather than politically, was suddenly accepted and understood by the Germans. • The social revolution was destroying the inner life of Germany • The German nation was forced out of it’s private world (Auschwitz)
After Hitler • Younger generation being objective, rational, decisive, politically active. • Repressing recent experience of the nation • Creating a new way of life toward the future
Thank You Arthur Schopenhauer “Hitler taught the world some things it will never forget”