The End of Ban: Germany 1945

1. The End of Ban: Germany 1945 By Ashot Manukyan

2. From One Moment to the Next • Nazism vanished at once after the death of Hitler • Hitler’s propaganda specialists on “war beyond the war” • The Regime’s leaders and functionaries • Military defeat resulted to an end.

3. Hitler • Hitler thought of history as a kind of hall of fame • His understanding of the nature of greatness • Habit of thinking in absolutes (sharp alternatives) • Subordinating everything to his own goals

4. The Salvation of the World • Hitler referred to himself as “Europe’s last chance” • Aside from Europe no other continent counts • Asia, Africa, America, democratic ideologies • Hitler, as a figure of the democratic era • “soulless” American capitalism, “inhuman” Russian Bolshevism • Third-force

5. Hitler’s Thoughts • Occupy the whole continent with Germany as its center • “It could not be conquered by charm and persuasiveness. I had to rape it in order to have it” • He saw Germany either creating an empire, or “to close her existence… as a second Holland and a second Switzerland”“to vanish from the earth or serve others as a slave nation” • “to force the German people, who are hesitating to confront their destiny, to take the road to greatness”

6. What Was Taken • Germans were alienated from politics and oriented toward private concerns and goals. • Hitler’s tendency to think heroically rather than politically, was suddenly accepted and understood by the Germans. • The social revolution was destroying the inner life of Germany • The German nation was forced out of it’s private world (Auschwitz)

7. After Hitler • Younger generation being objective, rational, decisive, politically active. • Repressing recent experience of the nation • Creating a new way of life toward the future

8. Thank You Arthur Schopenhauer “Hitler taught the world some things it will never forget”