Between 1933 and 1938, Eric Voegelin published four books that
brought him into increasingly open opposition to the Hitler regime
in Germany. As a result, he was forced to leave Austria in 1938,
narrowly escaping arrest by the Gestapo as he fled to Switzerland
and later to the United States. Twenty years later, he was invited
to return to Germany as director of the new Institute of Political
Science at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.
In 1964, Voegelin gave a series of memorable lectures on what he
considered "the central German experiential problem" of his time:
Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the reasons for it, and its
consequences for post-Nazi Germany. For Voegelin, these issues
demanded a scrutiny of the mentality of individual Germans and of
the order of German society during and after the Nazi period.
"Hitler and the Germans" offers Voegelin's most extensive and
detailed critique of the Hitler era.
While most of the lectures deal with what Voegelin called
Germany's "descent into the depths" of the moral and spiritual
abyss of Nazism and its aftermath, they also point toward a
restoration of order. His lecture "The Greatness of Max Weber"
shows how Weber, while affected by the culture within which Hitler
came to power, had already gone beyond it through his anguished
recovery of the experience of transcendence.
"Hitler and the Germans" provides a profound alternative
approach to the topic of the individual German's entanglement in
the Hitler regime and its continuing implications. This
comprehensive critique of the Nazi period has yet to be
matched.
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