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Hermann Rauschning (1887–1982)

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1887
Avled
1982
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male
Nationalitet
Germany
Födelseort
Toruń, Kujawien-Pommern, Polen
Dödsort
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Danzig, Deutschland
Posen, Preußen
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Hermann Rauschning (7 August 1887 – February 8, 1982) was a German conservative and reactionary who became a Nazi member in 1932 in the Free City of Danzig, and in 1934 renounced Nazi party membership and fled to the United States where he denounced Nazism. Rauschning is chiefly known for his book Hitler Speaks, in which he claimed to have many meetings and conversations with Hitler. Historians generally regard this book as discredited.
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The Revolution of Nihilism: A Warning to the West was first published in German in 1938 with the first English edition appearing in the fateful month of August 1939, just before the signing of the Non-Aggression Pact between Hitler and Stalin. Hermann Rauschning was a conservative member of the landowning class who served for a time as President of the Danzig Senate and for a brief time was a member of the National Socialist Party until he resigned in 1934 as it became clear to him that the party's policies and methods would result in disaster for Germany. Rauschning's analysis of the theory and practice of National Socialism is comprehensive, compelling and remarkable for its farsightedness.

The essential argument of Rauschning's thesis is captured in the title. The National Socialist revolution is at its core nihilist. Whatever philosophy or theory is put forth in Mein Kampf or in books and articles by the leading theoreticians of National Socialism is all for show. It is tactical not strategic and does not end in any complete political or moral system. There is no end of history at the end of the revolution, and indeed there is no end to the revolution. Although the revolution may feature rhetorical appeals to nationalism that would appeal to traditional conservatives, the military and the capitalist class, National Socialism was no more an attempt to restore the politics of the Second Reich than its Socialism was intended to usher in a dictatorship of the proletariat.

The defining characteristic of the National Socialist revolution Rauschning calls "dynamism". There is no final destination possible for the revolution short of world domination. In domestic politics there can be no stasis reached when are crises are resolved and normal relations are restored between the state and society. No restoration of individual rights and traditional norms of freedom and justice can contemplated, let alone achieved.

Rauschning is not reluctant to assign blame to Hitler's accession to power to institutions and political elements that he would otherwise have been in sympathy with. Indeed, as noted above, Rauschning was for a period of time a member of the National Socialist Party. But the conservative and nationalist elements in German politics, the military and to a lesser extent the capitalist class all bear blame for facilitating Hitler's rise. Whether motivated by a fear of Bolshevism, a desire to be revenged upon the Allies, to restore the German military in contravention of the Versailles Treaty, a belief that Hitler's chancellorship would be just a stepping stone to the restoration of the monarchy, they collectively miscalculated and underestimated Hitler.

Once the reins of power were in the Nazis' hands they were able to coordinate their policies through the tactics of Gleichschaltung, the process of Nazifying the state at all levels, along with the commercial and non-commercial institutions and associations in the private sector, right down to each individual. It was a process used over and over in each of his peacetime conquests as well as in war. In effect, all Germans, regardless of party membership, were bound to the party through the state so that opposition of any sort becomes isolated and the ability to function in society is circumscribed by obedience to the party/state. It becomes impossible to obtain or retain a job, provide for a family, maintain a roof over one's head without submitting. The process was similar to that employed by the Bolsheviks as was documented by Hannah Arendt in her classic "The Origins of Totalitarianism". Think of Glechschaltung as a more through efficient and pervasive form of cancel culture.

One of the more fascinating chapters, The Aims of the Revolution in Foreign Policy, covers the geopolitical theories of Professor Karl Haushofer, theoretician of Lebensraum, a "natural right to room to live", the "the state-biological rule of life put into classic form". Rauschning speculates regarding the possible paths of expansion that the Third Reich will pursue in the course of its world conquest. One way lies through the Danube Basin, Turkey, Asia Minor and India. An alternative empire would follow a more northerly route from Flushing to Vladivostok. In this second scenario it would be possible to see the world divided up into the British overseas empire, an Italian empire under Mussolini along a Mediterranean, Africa, Asia Minor axis, an American continental bloc and a Pacific empire ruled by Japan.

All of that speculation aside, Rauschning, who is writing in 1938 forecasts the possibility of an alliance between Hitler and Stalin that would enable Germany to deal with Poland then crush the French without worrying about an Eastern front, which is of course exactly what happened. However, he did pull back from that prediction in his updated version published in the summer of 1939.

Rauschning is firm in the belief that there can be no possible modus vivendi with National Socialism. It will need to be defeated and extirpated. The eventual salvation for Europe if there will be one, lies in the restoration ot its ancient freedoms, "national, political, intellectual, and spiritual" with Germany taking its place in a leadership role, collaborating with the smaller states of Europe in what sounds like a federative association. For better or for worse, it sounds like an arrangement much like the European Union.

It might be objected that Rauschning's work, no matter how topical in might have been in 1938-39 is of very little interest to students and general readers of our time. I would only observe that I am finishing this review on the 90th anniversary of Hitler's appointment as German chancellor on January 30, 1933. It's not that long ago and there are no guarantees that the moral and intellectual devils that spawned National Socialism are not alive among us and cannot threaten us again.
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citizencane | 1 annan recension | Jan 16, 2023 |
Fiction: this book is a fabrication of the author, who appently met Adolf Hitler only 3 or four times and never alone. It first appeared in 1939 and was translated into German in 1940. It was a best seller and has had many follow-up editons (WorldCat lists 264), lastest being in 2015 (Danish) and in 2012 (original French and German).
Articles and books have been written about its authenticity. The best summary is given in a German Wikipedia article "Gespräche mit Hitler" [ rel="nofollow" target="_top">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gespr%C3%A4che_mit_Hitler ] which surprisingly has NOT been translated or re-written in any other languages.… (mer)
 
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johninvienna | 2 andra recensioner | Apr 21, 2019 |
Hitler m'a dit, une source discréditée

L'authenticité des propos attribués à Hitler par Hermann Rauschning dans Hitler m'a dit n'est plus que rarement admise. L'historien britannique Ian Kershaw juge notamment : « Je n'ai pas une seule fois cité le Hitler m'a dit de Hermann Rauschning, ouvrage dont l'authenticité apparaît désormais si mince que mieux vaut carrément l'oublier ». Après Theodor Schieder, Wolfgang Hänel, Fritz Tobias et Eckhard Jesse ont mis en évidence le peu de crédibilité de l'intimité avec Hitler revendiquée par Rauschning. Celui-ci n'aurait en fait rencontré Hitler que quatre fois, jamais seul à seul, n'aurait donc pu recueillir de telles confidences notamment politiques, et aurait puisé son inspiration essentiellement dans la littérature de l'époque. Son témoignage est en particulier jugé invraisemblable à propos de supposées convictions cachées de Hitler à l'encontre de la religion chrétienne, dont il est le seul à faire état.

En 1985, l'historien Wolkgang Koch, citant approbativement les conclusions de Henry Ashby Turner selon lesquelles on doit accorder peu de confiance au livre I Paid Hitler, publié sous le nom de Fritz Thyssen mais écrit par Emery Reves, ajoute que le même Emery Reves aida Hermann Rauschning à écrire le livre Hitler m'a dit.

Source : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rauschning
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Kebek | 2 andra recensioner | Dec 17, 2013 |
Also known as "Hitler Speaks". This is an incredible book to read. Hermann Rauschning was President of the Danzig Senate and had actually met Hitler a few times which have been historically proven and noted in his other book "The Revolution of Nihilism" which he says he had met with him 3 or 4 times. This book on the other hand makes it appear that he had many more meetings with Hitler than he previously stated. It has been shown by historians that much of what is stated in this book has been taken from many sources, speeches ect., and were not taken from personal conversations with Hitler. In fact he in all his meetings (3 or 4) he was never even alone with him. Bluntly put this book is basically Allied propaganda although damn interesting propaganda. I honestly believe many of the stories of Hitlers psychosis and involvement with magic may have actually had their start from the last chapters of the book. Read with a grain of salt, heck with the whole salt shaker, but read it nonetheless.… (mer)
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