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Hitler and the Germans

by Detlev Clemens, Brendan Purcell. 285 pgs.

Contributors:

   Detlev Clemens, Brendan Purcell

Publisher:

   University of Missouri Press

Place of Publication:

  Columbia, MO  

Publication Year:

  1999

Subjects:

Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945, Heads Of State--Germany--Biography, National Socialism--Philosophy, Germany--Politics And Government--1933-1945, Racism--Germany

	Part I. Descent into the Abyss
	1. Introduction	51
	§1. Central Experiential Problem: Hitler's Rise to Power	51
	§2. The Experiential Occasion of the Lectures: Schramm's “Anatomy of a Dictator”	53
	§3. The Stupidity of a Whole People: The “Buttermelcher Syndrome”	55
	§4. Present-day German Laxity toward Former Nazis	63
	2. Development of Diagnostic Tools	70
	§5. The Cliché of the “Unmastered Past” versus the “Presence under God”	70
	§6. The Cliché of “Collective Guilt” and the Representation of a Society	75
	§7. Clichés of “State” and “Democracy”	82
	§8. Philosophical and Biblical Understanding of Humanity and of Radical Stupidity	85
	§9. Karl Kraus's Dritte Walpurgisnacht on Lies and Propaganda	91
	§10. Robert Musil on Simple and Intelligent Stupidity	98
	§11. Carl Amery on Bourgeois “Propriety” as Secondary Virtue Eclipsing Primary Virtues	102
	§12. Criminal Stupidity and Loss of Experience of Reality in a Disordered Society	105
	3. Descent into the Academic Abyss as Manifested by Schramm's “Anatomy of a Dictator”	110
	§13. Schramm's Conceptual and Stylistic Incomprehension of Hitler	110
	§14. Hitler's “Aura”	114
	§15. Hitler and Christianity	121
	§16. Hitler's Views on Religion	124
	§17. Hitler and Women	129
	§18. Hitler and His Entourage	133
	§19. Hitler and “The Art of Reading”	136
	§20. Hitler's Social Darwinism	142
	§21. Conclusion: Schramm's Spiritual Illiteracy Contrasted with Alan Bullock's Diagnosis of Hitler	147
	4. Descent into the Ecclesiastical Abyss: The Evangelical Church	155
	§22. Lack of a Theoretical Articulation of “Church”	155
	§23. Intellectual and Spiritual Decline in the German Churches	157
	§24. Evangelical Church's Participation in Nationalistic- Völkisch Ideology	162
	§25. Theological Opinions Regarding Race Laws	165
	§26. Anti-Semitic Tendencies in Land Bishop Wurm and Pastor Niemöller	171
	§27. Anti-Semitic Residues in Present-day Evangelical Church	173
	§28. Theoretical Inquiry into Romans 13	178
	5. Descent into the Ecclesiastical Abyss: The Catholic Church	184
	§29. Layout of the “Hitler and the Germans” Lectures	184
	§30. Difference between Catholic and Evangelical Attitudes toward Nazism	185
	§31. Dehumanized Response of Catholic Church to State Authority and to Persecution of Those outside the Church	188
	§32. Karl Kraus on Concentration Camp Life	194
	§33. Catholic Resistance to Dehumanization: Alfred Delp	196
	§34. “Guidelines” for German Clerics and Theologians	199
	§35. Tension between the Church as Social Institution and as Community of Universal Humanity under Christ	201
	§36. Advances and Regressions in Differentiation of Knowledge of the Presence under God	204
	§37. The Church's Representation of Universal Humanity: Its Duty and Its Failure	209
	6. Descent into the Legal Abyss	213
	§38. The Rechtsstaat as a Specifically German Concept	213
	§39. Conflict between Hierarchical Legal Systems and Separation of Powers, as in the German Basic Law ( Grundgesetz )	215
	§40. Legal Positivism, Judge-made Law, and Authoritarian Rule	219
	§41. Historical Background to Closed Legal Systems	223
	§42. “Positive Law” and “Natural Law”: Primacy of the Moral Substance of Society	225
	§43. The Question of Morality in German War-Crime Trials	230
	Part II. Toward a Restoration of Order
	7. First and Second Reality in Ancient, Post-medieval, and Modern Times of Crisis	239
	§44. Don Quixote's Second Reality as Divertissement	240
	§45. Divertissement -character of Modern Logic	247
	§46. Musil and Doderer on the Refusal to Apperceive Reality	252
	8. The Greatness of Max Weber	257
	§47. Unmasking of Passions of the Age by Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Weber	257
	§48. Nonexperience of Transcendence Leading to Dehumanization	261
	§49. Weber's Unresolved Tension toward Transcendence	264
	§50. Weber as Intellectual Mystic	270

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