TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gossman, Lionel
AB  - Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a rebellious young writer who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded artist who was to join the German Communist Party. Ludwig Roselius was a successful businessman who had made a fortune from his invention of decaffeinated coffee. What was it about the revolutionary climate following World War I that induced three such different personalities to collaborate in the production of a slim volume of poetry—entitled Gott in Mir—about the indwelling of the divine within the human? Gossman's study situates the poem in the ideological context that made the collaboration possible: pantheism, Darwinism, disillusionment with traditional liberal values, theosophy and völkisch religions, and Lebensreform. The study outlines the subsequent life of the Princess who, until her death in 1993, continued to support and celebrate the ideals and heroes of National Socialism. Brownshirt Princess provides deep insight into the sources and character of the "Nazi Conscience", and is invaluable reading for anybody interested in understanding German society during the inter-war and Nazi periods. The University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Princeton University, has generously contributed towards the publication of this volume.
DO  - 10.11647/OBP.0003
ID  - OAPEN ID: 646688
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 798930490
KW  - second world war
KW  - german history
KW  - european history
KW  - nazism
KW  - poetry
KW  - national socialism
KW  - world war ii
KW  - german literature
KW  - Adolf Hitler
KW  - Christianity
KW  - God
KW  - Nordic race
KW  - Völkisch movement
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/4147e0f9-cd44-4dfb-ba91-2d66dab38ea7/646688.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30319
PB  - Open Book Publishers
PY  - 2009
SN  - 9781906924065
TI  - Brownshirt Princess : A Study of the 'Nazi Conscience'
ER  - 
