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Article: Geheimes Deutschland: Stefan George and die Bruder Stauffenberg.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2008
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Geheimes Deutschland: Stefan George and die Bruder Stauffenberg. By MANFRED RIEDEL. Cologne: Bohlau. 2006. 267 pp. 24.90 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-412-07706-8.
'Geheimes Deutschland' ('Secret Germany' would hardly be an adequate translation) is a poem in Stefan George's last volume of poetry, Das neue Reich (1928). The term had been used before by members of the George circle and by nineteenth-century exponents of the Conservative Revolution. Its origins go back even further. Manfred Riedel illuminates the intellectual tradition to which the term refers: George relentlessly rejects German imperialism, defining Germany as a community of speakers of German, linked to ...