Self-sacrifice, Oriental mysticism, racial “truth,” the public good, doing one’s duty—these are among the seductive catchphrases that circulated in pre-Nazi Germany. In The Cause of Hitler’s Germany—previously published as part of his 1982 book The Ominous Parallels—Leonard Peikoff, Ayn Rand’s long-time associate, demonstrates how unreason and collectivism led the seemingly civilized German society to become a Nazi regime.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 The Cause of Nazism
2 The Totalitarian Universe
3 Hitler’s War Against Reason
4 The Ethics of Evil
5 United They Fell
6 The Emotionalist Republic
7 The Nazi Synthesis
8 The Culture of Hatred
9 The Killers Take Over
10 Hitler in Power
11 The Concentration Camps
Index