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Nazi Ideologist - The Political and Social Thought of Alfred Rosenberg (Hardcover)
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Nazi Ideologist - The Political and Social Thought of Alfred Rosenberg (Hardcover)
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This book by dynamic scholars James Whisker and John Coe examines
the short life of the Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg, one of the
most overlooked individuals in the pantheon of leaders in the Third
Reich. Born to German mercantile parents in the Baltic region of
the Russian Empire, he was a student in Russia during the Bolshevik
Revolution. Deeply influenced by the anti-Semitic forgery The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a propaganda pamphlet distributed
by the tsar's secret police, he carried it to Germany, where he
introduced it to Adolf Hitler. Rosenberg leaned heavily on
heterodox Christian writings that challenged mainstream Christian
thought. He revived interest in a variety of philosophies and
individuals long forgotten, such as the cosmic dualistic Cathars
and the mystic Master Eckart von Hochheim. Rosenberg came to view
history from a perspective often called "Scientific Racism," which
held that the history of humankind had been marked by a struggle
between the Aryan race and their supposed inferiors. Race was the
newest subject for the application of cosmic dualism, which is the
spiritual belief that two fundamental concepts exist. Rosenberg
identified the Nazis' task as creating a bulwark against Semitic
influences from Europe generally and Germany in particular, and to
do so by any means necessary. Rosenberg figured in a long
anti-Jewish tradition in Germany, a tortured legacy that began with
Martin Luther and continued through many of the prominent German
figures of the nineteenth century. Indeed, Rosenberg considered his
magnum opus, The Myth of the 20th Century, to be the logical
successor work to Foundations of the 19th Century by the composer
Richard Wagner's son-in-law Houston Stewart Chamberlain.
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