This book presents the reader with a historic political portrait. It deals with a National Socialist who decisively influenced the entire development of the Third Reich. Was he a philosopher? A statesman? A megalomaniac with pernicious ideas which caused the death of millions? Who was this Alfred Rosenberg?
He was called Hitler's Father Confessor, The Grand Inquisitor of the Third Reich, the man behind the Nordic Faith Movement, the ideologist who had the greatest influence on the direction of Nazi Germany's foreign policy. He was convicetd as a war criminal at the Nuremberg trials and executed.
But he saw himself as a philosopher, a successor to Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates in the eternal search for wisdom and truth. He presented himself to the German people as practitioner of the universal science that aims at an explanation of all the phenomena of the universe by ultimate causes. He was the "intellectual" chosen by Hitler to create "a religion of the Blood" - the official high priest and interpreter of the Nazi way of life, custodian of the Nazi world view.
He was called Hitler's Father Confessor, The Grand Inquisitor of the Third Reich, the man behind the Nordic Faith Movement, the ideologist who had the greatest influence on the direction of Nazi Germany's foreign policy. He was convicetd as a war criminal at the Nuremberg trials and executed.
But he saw himself as a philosopher, a successor to Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates in the eternal search for wisdom and truth. He presented himself to the German people as practitioner of the universal science that aims at an explanation of all the phenomena of the universe by ultimate causes. He was the "intellectual" chosen by Hitler to create "a religion of the Blood" - the official high priest and interpreter of the Nazi way of life, custodian of the Nazi world view.
