IDEOLOGIES: Ignazification

Germany's leading encyclopedia, Brockhaus, demonstrated last week that it was keeping pace with changing times.

Said the encyclopedia's 1937 edition: "Naziism is an attitude towards life. . . . Naziism does not regard people as the sum of individual citizens but as a community bound by blood ties. . . . The foremost principle of Naziism is the Führerprinzip. This means victory over the parliamentary system and over majority rule in all spheres of life and consolidation of all politically and productively superior forces of the nation. . . . Naziism intends to bring about the final rebirth of the...

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