Transcript End of Banx

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”