EJ / Der Friede

[Jan Zimmermann <jan@Alameda.net>]

Dear list members,

we should remember that the term "Widerstand" was used before 1933 by the
rigth-winged opponents of Weimar. The best example was Ernst Niekisch and
his "Widerstandskreis" - against Versailles, and another example ist the
little broschure "Kriegsgeneration / Widerstand", written by Hans Henning
Grote (Berlin w.y.). Men like Niekisch, Jünger and other
"Nationalrevolutionäre" upholded their "Widerstandshaltung" after 1933 -
because this was not the Drittes Reich they wanted. Too plebeian. In this
way, Jünger was "widerständig", but it was no active "Widerstand".

We should forget the view on the Nationalsozialismus as a monolithic block,
standing for a totally new and self-formed policy. Why was the NS so
successfully? Because it absorbed - besides its own rass-policy - many
parts of common german wishes and political targets. Like EJ himself said:
he was "d´accord" with Hitlers politics in 1938.