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Conclusions concerning the history of Neudeutschland from 1919 to 1939 must be placed within a two-part perspective; the area of Catholic social history in Germany, and the area of German history. This is necessary because of the existence in Germany of an attempt made by Catholics to create an explicitly Catholic society in Germany, an attempt which was made within the framework of the larger unit, German society, an attempt which had as its goal the capture of the larger structure.
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Catholics were not alone in this reaction. See the brilliant summary of the impact of these factors on one German community described in: William Sheridan Allen, The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single Town, 1930-1935 (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1965), 132–138.
Similar charges are fired at such men as Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Wagner, and, in fact, at the entire German intellectual community that stressed the Volk. See such works as: Peter Viereck, Meta-Politics, The Roots of the Nazi Mind (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1941); and Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology. For the problems inherent in such a simplistic approach, see
George G. Windell, “Hitler, National Socialism, and Richard Wagner,” Journal of Central European Affairs, Volume 22 (April 1962-January 1963), 479–497. For an excellent treatment of this tradition in German intellectual history, see
Fritz Stern, The Politics of Cultural Despair (New York: Anchor Books, 1965).
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Warloski, R. (1970). Conclusion. In: Neudeutschland, German Catholic Students 1919–1939. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0781-3_9
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