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The Germans

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Norbert Elias provides third and fourth postwar generations with a masterful insight into not only how nationalism together with authoritarian thinking work but how and why their particular German version could develop in the first place. Without knowing and understanding this, understanding the mechanisms of the Third Reich and - even more important - why their roots are still there is simply not possible. Learning from history with regard to these underlying sub-cultures from which Nazi ideologies drew their powerful and deadly potential and on the other hand their misinterpretation by the rest of the world means reading Elias' "The Germans". He clearly shows: the roots for Nazidom and Naziism lie much deeper than Word Depression's unemployment, the Spirits of Verdun or Hitler's brilliant demagoguism.

Norbert Elias gives us with this fantastic piece of work the BEST interpretation on the question of nacionalism(s). His text is so clear and yet so full of ideas that it keeps you reading until the very end.And it is not a very "friendly" theme. This one is for anybody who ever asked how and why nacionalism works as a powerful bond and wonders about the development of ideas in Germany until World War II. Definetly, a masterpiece