SV: Juenger quote

["Bertil Häggman" <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

>To summarise, EJ in the 1920s had an ambivalent attitude and reserved the
>bulk of his venom not for communism or bolschevism but for the Weimar
>state and its parliamentary, democratic, liberal system, indeed welcomed
>the negative effect on the constitutional state of communist activism. Of
>course, I willingly concede the point that he moved away from this
>position and reject any attempt to reduce Juenger to it.


John and others,

As you rightly point out Juenger was probably not an
anticommunist in the 1920s. On the contrary he
to some extent felt that the communists were also
fighting the Weimar state, some sort o cofighters. 

What worries me is that 
much of the interest today (at least in Scandinavia)
is in Juenger's nationalist activist period. It tends
to give a false image of him, because from 1945
he was a different person, sometimes even a Christian,
an in my opinion, had he voted, he would have
voted CDU/CSU. I haste here to add that it does
not mean that he might have accepted the 
complete party programs.

Best greetings from Siberian Scandinavia
with down to -50 degrees centigrade in
the north.

Bertil Haggman