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The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology by Fritz Stern

Paul de Lagarde was a “lonely, embittered man.” Julius Langbehn? “A failure and a psychopath.” Moeller van den Bruck “provided the German right with its dominant political myth” in the early 1920s. They all hated liberalism. These three men, and their attacks on Germany’s cultural forces, helped contribute to the political delusion that set the stage for Hitler. This academic tome, published in 1961, is well worth a re-read today.

Pem McNerney, Living Editor, Shore Publishing