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Article: Old Dreams of a New Reich: Volkish Utopias and National Socialism.(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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When Jost Hermand's Der alte Traum vom neuen Reich first appeared in 1988, historians recognized it as an important contribution to the debate concerning the intellectual origins of National Socialism. Now this significant work is available in an excellent translation by Paul Levesque and Stefan Soldovieri.
In Old Dreams of a New Reich Hermand traces the evolution of volkish ideology in Germany from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the collapse of the Third Reich. He discusses in great detail the various manifestations of extreme nationalist thought in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Hermand emphasizes the diversity of the volkish movement. ...