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Inhumanities: Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture

David Blackbourn

Common Knowledge,

For the past few years, David B. Dennis has had the unenviable task of steeping himself in the (turgid, yet strangely compelling) prose of the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi party's major propaganda organ, and the Third Reich's daily paper of choice.

The result is a synoptic compendium of National Socialist thought on major cultural and artistic figures, which is both chilling in the delusion it reveals, and startling in its originality. Startling in particular because-as Dennis claims-this key resource for scholars of Nazi thought and propaganda has apparently barely received any scholarly attention to date (p.

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4; p. , n. 8). In many ways, this volume offers the reader a veritable treasure-trove of Nazi absurdities-ranging from swastika-shaped crosswords (p.

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4) and analysis of Bach's personality as the product of 'the "best hereditary powers of a healthy species"' (p. 25), to attempts to attribute Brahms's and Wagner's long-standing personal enmity to '"Jewish hatefulness"' (pp. ), and the characterisation of Heine as a plagiarist, pornographer, necrophiliac, '"muckraker"', '"thug"', '"communist"', '"soul of s***"', or even a stinking, poisonous '"swamp"' (pp.

). Meanwhile, every single (non-Jewish) German artist, composer and intellectual seems to be in constant competition for the coveted title of '"the first great völkisch thinker"', in a riotous profusion of contradiction and irrationality (e.g. pp.

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, ). However, there is something deeply depressing about the way in which such Nazified ideology and language became so tragically widespread, creeping into every last crevice of intellectual life. 'Political correctness' during the Third Reich was so totally at odds with that of our own age, that there is a danger that immersion in such ideas and language can merely feel distasteful (or even deranged).

Yet, as Dennis points out, we should guard against 'the urge to refuse to acknowledge … that "anyone could believe all this" and recognise that the purveyors of Nazism firmly-or, in their word, unshakeably-thought that they were bringing about political revolution, cultural achievement, and spiritual order' (p.

). If fanatical National Socialists really took these outpourings seriously, so the argument runs, then in order fully to understand the regime and its excesses, we must do so too.(1) In general terms, Inhumanities aims to provide an exploration and analysis of the ways in which those journalists and academics who contributed to the Völkischer Beobachter between and

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