Another pdf!

From 18 November 2023 until 12 January this year I had been publishing some extracts from Brendan Simms’ book on Hitler. I will no longer quote it at length. But I have just edited a PDF that can serve not only as an introduction to Simms’s intellectual biography—in the sense of trying to understand Hitler’s ideas— but for something more important.

I am referring to the fact that, even eighty years after the fateful 1945, the American racial right still fails to understand fundamental aspects of National Socialism. I hope that our ‘Hitler’ PDF will serve not only to make them, at last, begin to understand Uncle Adolf, but also the German—and European—degenerates I saw earlier this month on my recent visit to continental Europe. In his book, Simms observed:

Hitler rose to new heights of invective against the German middle class, whom he dismissed as ‘philistines’, ‘bourgeois boobies’, who were so befuddled by the ‘fug of associational meetings’ that they were unable to transcend the ‘usual jingoism of our bourgeois world of today’. He contrasted the robustness of the SA, who knew that ‘terror can only be broken by terror’, with ‘bourgeois wimpishness’. Hitler also trenchantly restated his objections to parliamentarism and electoral politics, and western democracy in general, concluding that the ‘majority principle’ amounted to ‘the demolition of the Führer idea as such’.

Does one begin to understand why I have so much contempt for the racial right of our day, infinitely closer to American conservatism than to National Socialism? I recommend reading these excerpts from Simms’ book to anyone who wants to understand history’s darkest hour.