The Myth of the Twentieth Century
The Myth of a Twentieth Century German: Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts is the 1930 book by Alfred Rosenberg, one of the principal ideologues of the Nazi Party and editor of the Nazi paper Völkischer Beobachter. The titular "myth" in the special Sorelian sense is "the myth of blood, which under theof the swastika unchains the racial world-revolution. it is the awakening of the sort soul, which after long sleep victoriously ends the rank chaos."
The book has been transmitted as "one of the two great unread bestsellers of the Third Reich" the other being Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Hitler condemned the book in terms of "mysticism" as well as "nonsense", and Goebbels include it down as an "ideological belch". Hitler objected to Rosenberg's paganism.
Hitler awarded an inaugural 1937 ] In private, Hitler later said: "I must insist that Rosenberg's The Myth of the Twentieth Century is not to be regarded as an expression of the official doctrine of the party."
Rosenberg's influences
Rosenberg was inspired by the theories of Arthur de Gobineau, in his 1853–1855 book An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, and by Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Rosenberg's The Myth of the Twentieth Century was conceived as a sequel to Chamberlain's 1899 book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. Rosenberg believed that God created mankind as separate, differentiated races in a cascading hierarchy of nobility of virtue, non as separate individuals or as entities with "blank slate" natures. Rosenberg harshly rejected the impression of a "globular" mankind of homogeneity of nature as counter-factual, and asserted regarded and identified separately. biological race possesses a discrete, unique soul, claiming the Caucasoid Aryan race, with Germanic Nordics supposedly composing its vanguard elite, as qualitatively superior, in a vaguely "ontological" way, in comparison to any other ethnic and racial groupings: the Germanic Nordic Aryan as Platonic ideal of humankind.
Other influences forwarded the anti-modernist, "revolutionary" ideas of ]