Lecture in Warsaw, Poland, April 14. Kongres Pamięci Narodowej REGISTER HERE Professor Stephen Hicks is joining professors Stéphane Courtois, Grzegorz Kucharczyk and David Satter to give a lecture on “Clash with Totalitarianisms. Poland, 1939 – 1945,”. Moderated by Krzysztof Ziemiec 02:00PM – 03:30PM (Poland) About the Institute Mission The mission of the Institute of National […]
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Lecture in Warsaw, Poland, April 14. Kongres Pamięci Narodowej REGISTER HERE Professor Stephen Hicks is joining professors Stéphane Courtois, Grzegorz Kucharczyk and David Satter to give a lecture on “Clash with Totalitarianisms. Poland, 1939 – 1945,”. Moderated by Krzysztof Ziemiec 02:00PM – 03:30PM (Poland) About the Institute Mission The mission of the Institute of National
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I was fortunate to visit Chojnice in May 2014, in connection with the publication of the Polish translation of my Nietzsche and the Nazis book. My visit was made possible by the Fuhrmann Foundation and Mayor Arseniusz Finster. I was impressed for several reasons. One was the beauty of Chojnice — its historical buildings and
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In “Philosophy and a Century of War,” I left the Soviet Union out of my discussion of World War II, for reasons not clear or convincing to everyone. So let me lay out my thought process. I started with a semi-complete list of the belligerents on both sides. It looks like this: From outside perspective,
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[This is Section 18 of Nietzsche and the Nazis.] 18. Militarization The most important part of the new Germany was the military. On a historically unprecedented scale, the German economy became a war economy. Conscription had been reintroduced in 1935, and in 1936 Hermann Göring took over as Germany’s economic minister. Under Göring’s direction, Germany
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