"The Decline of the West"

NAZI Germany, 1933-1945 -- Politics & government; SPENGLER, Oswald, 1880-1936; PAMPHLETS; MANNERS & customs; CULTURE; WAR; INTERNATIONAL relations

Focuses on Oswald Spengler's work on German life. Importance of party pamphlets that have dominated the thought of each age; Significance of Spengler's document "Der Untergang des Abendlandes"; Representation of the strenuous greatness, the massive energies and the underlying crudeness of German life, experience and thought; View barbarism and intensive culture as the characteristic of Germany since the savage disintegration of the Thirty Years' War; Discussion Spengler's theory of cultural development.