Re: EJ / Der Friede

["Heidelbauer Andreas" <andreas.heidelbauer@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

No, EJ's Friede is not the work of a resistance fighter, but of a dandy he
always was!
Andreas

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Bertil Häggman <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>
An: ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk <ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Datum: Donnerstag, 11. Februar 1999 20:19
Betreff: SV: EJ / Der Friede


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>>As I heard from a still living old man (no Nazi, but before and after 1933
>>nationalist and "Volkstumsaktivist"): Best was one of the "good" Nazis...
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>Don't say that to a Dane in the WWII generation.
>He might get upset.
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>>We should see that single Nazis had different backgrounds and that there
>>had been f.e. connections between parts of the "Konservative Revolution"
>>and men who made later career in the NSDAP. One example is the "Bund
>>Oberland": many members went to Niekisch in 1929/30, others went to the
>>NSDAP like Richard Hildebrandt, later SS-Obergruppenführer and Höherer SS-
>>und Polizeiführer in Danzig-Westpreußen.
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>It is true that some Freikorps went to NSDAP. Several
>Freikorps flags were kept in the Brown House in Munich.
>Other Freikorps members were executed by the regime.
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>>I think we should start to discuss EJs "Der Friede". He wrote the first
>>concept for it in the beginning of 1942 (Strahlungen, 5.1.42) - one month
>>after the start of the the soviet winter-offensive and the crisis of
>>moscow, two weeks after the dismissal of Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres v.
>>Brauchitsch. Now the little Gefreiter Hitler was the new Oberbefehlshaber.
>>Had EJ now seen that this war was no more to win?
>>(I forgot: one month after Pearl Harbor)
>>EJ burned his first concept for "Der Friede" on August 18th in 1942,
before
>>he left to Russia (See "Strahlungen").
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>Yes, _Der Friede_ is of great interest, especially
>if one wants to discuss EJs role in resisting Hitler.
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>>In 1943 it seemed not too late, that Germany could decide alone on its
>>destiny, make a knightly peace with keeping of its power. This was EJs
>>view, and this was the view of the military opposition. In this way there
>>was an accord between EJ and the military opposition. Hans Speidel and
>>Rommel received "Der Friede" in 1943/44 before the 20th of July: "In den
>>ersten Julitagen des Jahres 1944 gab mir Erwin Rommel die Weisung, die
>>Friedensschrift `des großen Soldaten Ernst Jünger´ für eine
>>Veröffentlichung im In- und Ausland vorzubereiten" (Hans Speidel: Briefe
>>aus Paris und aus dem Kaukasus, in: Freundschaftliche Begegnungen.
>>Festschrift für EJ zum 60. Geburtstag, Frankfurt a.M. 1955, 192)
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>1943 was also the founding year of the movement "Freies Deutschland"
>in the Soviet Union.
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>>In contrary to the men of the 20th of July EJ did not recommend the
>>assault: "Wenn Kniébolo fällt, so wird die Hydra einen neuen Kopf bilden."
>>(Strahlungen, 497) And he was not the one to take an active part - he saw
>>himself oncemore as the elitarian spectator and chronicler, standing over
>>the things to happen.
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>EJ did not believe in assassination. Political murder
>has never been effective. If the leader of a totalitarian
>regime is assassinated, the place is taken by one
>of his henchmen.
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>>"Der Friede" - what kind of peace and how to receive it, meant EJ?
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>>If some of you are interested to discuss "Der Friede" I could organize to
>>send you some special prints of it. Please email me directly for your
>>adresses.
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>Yes, I am interested and I will send you my postal
>address directly.
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>Thanks for an interesting contribution.
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>Best greetings
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>Bertil Haggman
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