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is stamped less with the seal of a hardly definable 'totalitarianism' than with that of sadism.

National Socialism in its totality was stamped less with the seal of a hardly definable 'totalitarianism' than with that of sadism.

 was uniquely successful because it was able to unite for a time the mob and the elite.

Like Sartre, Arendt sees anti-Semitism not as an accidental feature of German totalitarianism but as central to it. Furthermore, she characterises the peculiar appeal of National Socialism as its ability to unite for a time the mob and the elite. The mob and the elite found each other because in a sense they had both

1s 2ery essence is in torture. It is in torture that the third reich materialized in all the density of its being.

The moment has come to make good a promise I gave. I must substantiate why, according to my firm conviction, torture was the essence of National Socialism-more accurately stated, why it was precisely in torture that the Third Reich materialized in all the density of its being.

is antithetical to mercy. One has to torture, to destroy, in order to be great in bearing the suffering of others. Maturity is achieved in obliterating one's feelings of mercy.

No Golden Party Badge made of him a fully valid representative of the Fuhrer and his ideology, nor did any Blood Order or Iron Cross. He had to torture, destroy, in order to be great in bearing the suffering of others. He had to be capable of handling torture instruments, so that Himmler would assure him his Certificate of Maturity in History... later generations would admire him for having obliterated his feelings of mercy.

is a formidable phenomenon and the 'Aryan' unconscious has a higher potential than the Jewish.

there is no irony at work in his 1934 paper The State of Psychotherapy Today, in which he marvels at National Socialism as a 'formidable phenomenon,' and writes, 'the 'Aryan' unconscious has a higher potential than the Jewish.'

is an ideology that some argue brought German economic recovery through military Keynesianism.

After the Nazi takeover in 1933, Germany slowly began to recover from the Great Depression. Several economists, such as Michal Kalecki, have seen the German recovery as an example of military Keynesianism. However, others have noted that the bulk of the German military buildup occurred after 1936 when the economic recovery was well underway.[citation needed]

is was convinced that evil-doing in our time has a morbid force of attraction.

The Nazis were ‘convinced that evil-doing in our time has a morbid force of attraction.

is a hateful idea that achieved something like a victory in defeat because it succeeded in degrading the moral standards of our Western world, allowing more violence and brutal force in this world than would have been tolerated even in the decade after the first World war (1947).

Nazism and Fascism are thoroughly beaten, but I must admit that their defeat does not mean that barbarism and brutality have been defeated. On the contrary, it is no use closing our eyes to the fact that these hateful ideas achieved something like a victory in defeat. I have to admit that Hitler succeeded in degrading the moral standards of our Western world, and that in the world of today there is more violence and brutal force than would have been tolerated even in the decade after the first World war. And we must face the possibility that our civilization may ultimately be destroyed by those new weapons which Hitlerism wished upon us, perhaps even within the first decade after the second World war; for no doubt the spirit of Hitlerism won its greatest victory over us when, after its defeat, we used the weapons which the threat of Nazism had induced us to develop.

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