Revolt Against All That Was Old And Rotten
We are rapidly approaching this moment in America.
THERE WERE five million unemployed in Germany in 1931; industrial production had dropped by one third in two years. During the same period the membership of both the Communist and National Socialist youth organizations doubled, a political symptom in itself not mortally dangerous to the Weimar republic, for the extremist youth organizations in Germany never played an important part in politics; but it was an alarmingly true reflection of the flight into extreme political opinions and, above all, of the radicalization of the middle classes. Other countries were hardly less affected by the world economic crisis, but they had richer reserves of political strength.
In Germany large sections of the middle classes believed that political democracy was a foreign importation unsuited to German conditions, and there had been signs of anti-liberal and anti-parliamentarian unrest since the very first years of the Weimar republic. To say anything in its defense was decidedly unfashionable, especially among the younger generation, who never identified themselves with the regime; if it failed to cope with the situation, or if, as a ‘system’, it seemed irresponsible, rotten, and doomed to fail, why should they care? They hardly ever thought of it as their own state. Long before the crisis reached its climax one of them wrote that dictatorship suited the style of leadership ‘Fuhrerstil’ of the younger generation, because it took responsibility away from anonymous society and transferred it to a man of flesh and blood. As for liberalism, there was no greater abomination; ‘German youth turns away from liberalism with nausea and especial contempt, for there is nothing so contrary to their world outlook…In the liberal man German youth sees the enemy par excellence.’
Moeller van den Bruck was perhaps overstating their opinions, but not much. Many of their generation were or became anti-capitalists and to some extent anti-Western; “The West” was their synonym for the American way of life, of which a largely distorted picture was current among them and for Versailles powers who meant to keep Germany enslaved forever.
— Excerpted from Young Germany: A History of the German Youth Movement (1962) by Walter Laqueuer
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Lincoln Rockwell: A National Socialist Life
On the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Lincoln Rockwell, we present William Pierce’s piece on his life and work.
by Dr. William L. Pierce
ON THE eighteenth of June, 1945, a little over six weeks after the death of Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess wrote the following words in a letter to his wife, from his prison cell:
You will readily imagine how often during the last few weeks my thoughts have turned to the years gone by: to this quarter of a century of history, concentrated for us in one name and full of the most wonderful human experiences. History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern. The human element is no more and lives only in memory. Very few people have been privileged, as we were, to participate from the very beginning in the growth of a unique personality, through joy and sorrow, hope and trouble, love and hate, and all the manifestations of greatness, and further, in all the little indications of human weakness, without which a man is not truly worthy of love. . . .
Even when one has been privileged to witness the manifestations of greatness, it may be exceedingly difficult to describe adequately in words those manifestations and thereby to paint a true picture of a unique and great personality. When one has not the basis of a quarter-century of participation in the growth of such a personality, but less than two years, the task is especially difficult. It would be a vain hope, then, to expect the pages which follow to reflect the true greatness of the man. That greatness will be best reflected in the fruition of his life’s work in years to come.
Here, however, we can at least hope to evoke an image of the man, imperfect and incomplete though it may be, which will serve to inspire those National Socialists who did not have the privilege of knowing him personally.
George Lincoln Rockwell was born on March 9, 1918, in Bloomington, a small coal-mining and farming town in central Illinois. Both his parents were theatrical performers. His father, George Lovejoy Rockwell, was a twenty-eight-year-old vaudeville comedian of English and Scotch ancestry. His mother, born Claire Schade, was a young German-French toe-dancer, part of a family dance team. His parents were divorced when he was six years old, and he and a younger brother and sister lived alternately with their mother and their father during the next few years.
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https://nationalvanguard.org/2018/03/rockwell-a-national-socialist-life/
