hindenburg power myth and the rise of the nazis nov 2009

... discredited in Germany. The National Socialists’ powerful appropriation of older political myths duringtheir rise to power and the aesthetics of their rule meant that myths wereseen first and foremost ... Cassirer, dubbed the ‘father of the modern study of myths’²⁹ whodescribed myth as a potentially destructive force in his highly influential The Myth of the State published after the Second World ... the sole of the feet of the genius it depicts: it’sblasphemy.’⁸³ The mayor of Berlin, on the other hand, remained entirely unmoved bysuch allegations. Despite the fact that the city of Berlin...

... their ability to act independently of each other, with their own laws, councils and bureaucracies. In the absence of asociety of states, the papacy was otherwise the appropriate arbiter of the ... failed this measure. They were small islands of containabledisruption in the tempestuous seas of other rulers. Furthermore, the Hansa119 Territorial law and the rise of the state122See generally ... 1995), pp. 5–6. Aquinas used the word ‘state’similarly in the sense of the ‘state of the people of the Jews’: Alan Harding, Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State (Oxford: Oxford University...

... with the end of an old mast. Thus the patriots achieved the capture of the first town, and commenced the long war that was to end only with the establishment of the Free Republic of the Netherlands. ... her husband a letter to her father and brothers, begging them tofollow the example of thousands of their countrymen, and to leave the land where life and property were nolonger safe, and to ... to such of the inhabitants of the town as remained. The conquerorsestablished themselves in the best of the deserted houses; they then set to work to plunder the churches. The altars and images...

... 2009, the Internet was the third most likely way of meeting,6 after the intermediation of friends, and approximately tied with the bars, restaurants and other public places.7 With the rise ... the U.S., but aside from the case of same-sex couples the data show no change in the partnership rate of adults in the U.S. We suspect that one of the reasons that the partnership rate in the ... is the partnership rate of heterosexual women of a certain age a reasonable measure of the lack of availability of partners for single men of the same age group (and vice-versa)? Despite the...