Goebbels also raved against something the Nazis called “Jewish science”. What was that? Many of Germany’s top physicists and chemists were Jews-how did that make their work “Jewish”? As far as I know, physical laws don’t have anything to do with religion.
Which shows that the suffering of the Jews continues even to this day.
Tel Aviv Bauhaus buildings are a distinct subset of the genre that’s actually quite nice to look at, or, for that matter, to live in - I live in one of them myself.
Examples:
“Jewish Physics” was quantum physics and relativity, contrasted with “German Physics”, which…wasn’t.
Basically the German Physics movement was two German physicists, Phillip Lenard and Johannes Stark, who had problems with relativity, and hooked their wagon to Nazism to pursue a vendetta against Einstein.
The Nazi moralization didn’t come from asceticism, it came from a quack mythos about a mythical German king and a pure Aryan super race, telling the German people that they were special and the master race regardless of their situation. Combine that with Hitler improving the Germans’ situation after the brutal Treaty of Versaille…
Well a small-case puritan perhaps, but an upper-case Puritan refers to the English Protestant/Reformed movement who wanted to “purify” the Anglican Church in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Hitler consciously modelled his career upon Cromwell — to which someone once wrote, maybe it was the love of purges…
From 1944 to liberation the present Head of the House of Stuart was, as an 11 yr-old, along with his Wittelsbach family, held in concentration camps such as Dachau, along with other royal personages ( including the heir to the Kaiser, Louis Ferdinand ), and various politicians; so there was a carry on with the earlier gang of thieves.
Maybe, Carlyle wrote a biography on Cromwell and Hitler admired Carlyle. OTOH, Cromwell invited the Jews back into England making him one of the least anti-Semitic world leaders at that time.
The most famous person believed to have been born as a result of this idea is Frida, the redhead from ABBA. She’s the product of an affair between a (married) Nazi soldier and a young Norwegian woman. Her father deserted her mother, who died young, and Frida was raised by her maternal grandmother.
Her father found out who she was after she became famous, and tried to convince her that he loved her mother. She didn’t believe it.
As has been pointed out, Josef Goebbels was a womanizer. Albert Speer in a 1971 “Playboy” interview described him as having a casting couch that Hollywood producers would envy and he was not shy about actresses “repaying” him for helping their careers. Speer basically liked Goebbels (Goebbels tended to look with contempt at many Nazis who he regarded as uncouth louts) although he described
Goebbels as having a waspish tongue. Goebbels’s wife Magda in revenge had an affair with a Nazi official (and early patron of Speer) named Karl Hanke. Eventually Hitler ordered everybody to stop the affairs and make up.
So sad..two Once highly respected scientists allowed themselves to become fools, because they swallowed the Nazi ideology. Ironically these two guy’s early work provided the basis for much of quantum physics.
Refugee Bauhaus architects. Ignorance fought. I always thought you guys just envied your landsmen in Miami