#third reich
A degenerate music exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany, 1937. The Nazis really didn’t like Jazz.
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In a kind of immense field opening up in the dense and unbroken mass of the Nordic forest, against the backdrop of the metallic colors of two large lakes, under a sky made particularly lofty by this constant horizontality and straightness, which, so to speak, constitutes the style of this Pomeranian landscape, stands a group of buildings. They are a singular mixture of the primordial, the archaic, and the modern. They, too, are linear, smooth, devoid of any ornamental superfluities, at once hard and clear. Large towers, fences and large huts with colonnades, a large semi-circular amphitheater, buildings with high trapezoidal roofs, long parallellepipeds, great slopes and arenas sharply set off by their particularly violent colors — blood-red and black — against the dark green of the surrounding grass, large squares and paths cut into the lawn and paved with irregularly shaped stones like ancient Roman roads, bleachers, antennas. Over it all ripples a long, red flame, emblazoned with the swastika.
Julius Evola, originally published in Corriere Padano, August 22nd 1939, translator unknown.
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“But fire, it has many forms, it rises, lowers, is reborn, starts anew. This book is fire, with the exaltations of fire, the excess of fire. … May these pages, the last fleeting fire of what I was, burn for a moment, warm for a moment souls haunted by the passion of giving and believing, believing in spite of everything, in spite of the assurances of the corrupt and the cynics, despite the sad bitter taste that leaves us with the memory of our falls, the awareness of our misery and the immense field of moral ruins of a world that is certain to have no more of salvation, which prides itself on it and which nevertheless must be saved, must more than ever be saved."
Leon Degrelle from The Burning Souls
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Nazi Christmas tree decorations used during the Third Reich, depicting swastikas, the party salute ‘Sieg Heil!’ and even Hitlers head.
The Christmas decorations are part of a ‘festive’ exhibition opened in Ulm, Germany, displaying over 400 christmas tree ornaments to show christmas through the ages.
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30 April 1945: Hitler commits suicide with his gun. His body is doused with petrol and burned in a hole in the garden of the Führerbunker.
Rembrandt’sThe Nightwatch photographed being unrolled after having spent the majority of the war in storage in a series of dangerous locales, thanks to the voracious hunger for pillaged art of the Third Reich.
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This myth is widely held as fact, and couldn’t be further from the truth. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis took Germany’s economy, which had begun to stir from its deep, Depression-induced torpor thanks to the tireless work of the economist Hjalmar Schacht, and ran it into the ground.
Schacht had worked as Commissioner of Currency under the much maligned Weimar government, and had been remarkably successful in battling inflation. When Hitler seized power (more on that later), Schacht’s careful policies were largely swept aside in favor of forcing the German economy onto a war footing, a system which could only survive on a steady diet of war loot and assets seized from “racial undesirables” within Germany.
Even Hitler’s long term plans for Germany’s wealth were nonsensical trash. The end economic goal for the invasion of the East was to turn the area into some kind of bucolic plantation dream where sturdy German burghers oversaw toiling Slavic slaves, an economic model of autarky that had ceased to make any sense in the latter half of the 19th century.
In short, Hitler took an ailing economy on the road to recovery, and steered it toward certain ruin.
I have noticed a trend of “dictator-apologists” on the internet lately. I’m sure it’s been there for awhile and I’m just late to the disturbing, historically inaccurate, morally repugnant party, but I’m noticing it now. I’ve especially noticed Hitler and the Nazis getting the contrarian “not-that-bad” treatment recently. So, for my next topic, I will be posting commentary on popular misconceptions about Adolf Hitler, the Nazis, and Germany under the Third Reich. I will also be posting images of artworks declared degenerate, damaged, defaced, destroyed, or lost thanks to the actions of the Nazis, because this is portion of the hideousness of the Nazis that often gets overlooked because, well, there’s just so much to be angry at the Nazis about.
