Readings on Fascism and National Socialism - Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado by Various
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with education to citizenship but with preparation for
membership in the German people.... Not the structure of the state but the strength of a people determines the value and the strength of an individual life. The state must be an organization which corresponds to the laws of the people's life and assists in their realization.[34] Such indeed is the supreme goal of all National Socialist education: to make each individual an expression of "the eternal German": Whoever wishes fully to realize himself, whoever wishes to experience and embody the eternal German ideal within himself must lift his eyes from everyday life and must listen to the beat of his blood and his conscience ... He must be capable of that superhuman greatness which is ready to cast aside all temporal bonds in the battle for German eternity ... National Socialist education raises the eternal German character into the light of our consciousness ... National Socialism is the eternal law of our German life; the development of the eternal German is the transcendental task of National Socialist education.[35] Racial Supremacy The theory of the racial supremacy of the Nordic, i.e., the German, which was developed by Wagner and Stewart Chamberlain reaches its culmination in the writings of Alfred Rosenberg, the high priest of Nazi racial theory and herald of the _Herrenvolk_ (master race). Rosenberg developed his ideas in the obscure phraseology of _Der |
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