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Otto Strasser’s “New Europe,” Part 1

Kerry Bolton

Otto Strasser

3,873 words

Part 1 of 2

Czech translation here

“But all his life and works show that here is a good German who is a good European.” — Douglas Reed.[1]

While the various conceptions of European unity expounded by Francis Parker Yockey,[2] Sir Oswald Mosley,[3] Julius Evola[4], and even relatively obscure[5] thinkers such as Jean Thiriart[6] are comparatively well known, the European Idea was also a fundamental component of the “German Socialism” of Otto Strasser (1897–1974), a fact that is little known, at least among English-speaking advocates of European revival.[7] This might be because of the lingering sympathies for Hitlerism that are stronger among English-speaking nationalists[8] than among those in the European Motherland, which lead many to view Otto Strasser and his brother Gregor as quintessential traitors. This paper examines the ideas of European Federation in Otto Strasser’s thinking going back as early as 1931.

Otto Strasser’s Road to “German Socialism”

Otto Strasser joined up for the First World War as a lad of 16 and saw front-line action, being awarded the Iron Cross Second Class and coming out of the experience as an artillery lieutenant. The camaraderie among officers (he detested the NCOs for their callousness toward the ranks) was a seminal influence on his political thinking.[9] Otto’s ideas crystallized in the trenches, into what his zealous English advocate, Douglas Reed, called an “anti-international Socialism,” a Socialism wedded to Nationalism: “Socialism on a patriotic basis… not militarism with the word Socialist tacked on to it to dupe the masses . . .”[10] But Strasser was far from being any type of crypto-Marxist, and his entire ideology of “German Socialism,” thoroughly imbued with the Western ethos, has no more in common with Marxism than it does with Capitalism. It is the social ethos that guided Europe’s High Culture for centuries, prior to the emergence of capitalism and the bourgeoisie, and the mirror image of Marxism.

Otto’s first taste of politics came while he was a war invalid getting about on two sticks, when he confronted the Communist agitator Kurt Eisner at a public meeting.[11] It was in the revolutionary tumult of post-war Germany that both Otto and Gregor Strasser resumed their battle for Germany, this time as members of the Free Corps, war veterans formed to fight the Bolsheviks, and both joined von Epp’s march on Munich against the Soviets.[12]

During a brief sojourn with the Socialist Party, Otto sought in vain a “German Socialism” that was not synonymous with statism[13] and merely sought to expropriate capitalism from the bourgeoisie in the name of the proletariat, without overthrowing the spirit of capitalism. It was a characteristic of the labor movement that was cogently described by the German philosopher-historian Oswald Spengler,[14] who had a seminal influence on Otto’s thinking.

Otto had already met Hitler in 1920, at the prompting of Gregor, but was unimpressed. Hitler for his part derided Otto as an “intellectual crank.”[15] Otto’s attitude towards the National Socialist Party changed with the 1923 Putsch. He regarded this as evidence of a break by Hitler with militarists and capitalists, and as showing evidence of being genuinely revolutionary and “Socialist.” He was also impressed by Gen. Ludendorff’s statement that the Putsch had shown that collaboration with reactionaries was not possible.[16] With Hitler in jail and Gregor running the entire party, Otto succumbed to his bother’s further urgent appeals and joined the NSDAP in 1925.[17]

The following five years, which ended with Otto leaving the NSDAP in 1930, were ones of division within the party between the “German Socialism” of the Strassers and what they regarded as the compromises of Hitler. Gregor stayed with the party and maintained his North German stronghold with party luminaries such as Goebbels,[18] Victor Lutze, Kerrl and Bernard Rust, et al. backing him, while Robert Ley was the lone exception. These North German party leaders demanded the creation of a separate party led by the Strassers.[19]

The rivalry within the party was such that the newspaper vendors of the Strasser and Hitler factions fought each other in the streets, while Goebbels was built up by Hitler as the means of subverting the Strasser position, with the diminutive journalist being commander of the Berlin SA.[20]

Nonetheless, it was the Strasser organization that continued to grow in the North. The final showdown came in 1930 when the Strasser organization declared its support for the Saxon metalworkers’ strike. Hitler, threatened with the discontinuation of funds from the Employers’ Federation, ordered the party to oppose the strike. Otto was uncompromising, while Gregor sought to stay within the party in the belief that it could be reformed.[21]

Gregor, even with the possibility of forming a Government with himself as Vice Chancellor, could never bring himself to break with Hitler. He remained loyal. He preferred to decline any role for himself than to have Hitler left out, as demanded by General Schleicher and trades union leader Leipert.[22] When nonetheless accused of treachery by Hitler, Gregor resigned his offices in the party, quit politics, and was rewarded with death during the Party purge of 1934.[23]

Otto however had no illusions about Hitler and had formed the Union of Revolutionary National Socialists, or Black Front,[24] on the premise that war and ruin would provide the organization with the opportunity to overthrow Hitler.[25] Support was more widespread than might now be discerned. The Black Front had the backing of the Young German Order, revolutionary peasants in Schleswig-Holstein, National Socialists in Silesia, [26] and Captain Stennes of the North German SA.[27] Many Black Front supporters were interned after 1933, Reed stating that the number amounted in 1940 to between six and seven hundred.[28]

European Federation

Otto Strasser, despite his loyalty as a front-fighter to Germany’s World War I legacy, was not a militarist or an imperialist. His “German Socialism” eschewed any notion of “Lebensraum.” Even further from Hitlerism, Otto’s National Socialism did not endorse a biological and hierarchical view of race as the foundation of his ideology, as will be discussed later. His ideal was European Federation, while preserving and enhancing the ancient nations and ethnicities of Europe.

A complete program for the reorganization of Germany, including Germany’s relationship with Europe within the context of a European Federation, and a joint European colonial project, were enunciated in Otto Strasser’s book Germany Tomorrow published in 1940, which incorporated as the third part of the book Strasser’s 1931 manifesto, The Structure of German Socialism.[29] Reed commented that Germany Tomorrow “is addressed not only to Germans, but to all ‘Good Europeans.’”[30]

Strasser wrote in this connection that his book was “intended to provide the foundations for such a testing-time, penned by one who is convinced that German national security and European collaboration, far from being mutually exclusive, tend to favour one another.”[31] “European collaboration” was one of a trinity of the basic precepts of the Black Front, along with “national freedom and social justice.”[32] “The Aims and Methods of the Black Front,” a very brief outline, stated as the cornerstone of a future German foreign policy that “every kind of imperialism” would be repudiated, and that “a European federation” would be the “basis of national freedom and the popular development of all nations and minorities.” The three predicates referred to previously served “as groundworks and provisos of The Rebirth of the West.”[33] Hence, his conception was not only beyond Germany, but even beyond Europe and implied the entirety of “The West” as a spiritual-cultural identity.

As early as 1936 Otto had written of the rebirth of Western Civilization as being his raison d’être:

It is increasingly evident that the Federation of the Peoples of Europe is the vital precondition for the spiritual recovery of the European nations and for the preservation of the civilization and culture of the West. . . . For this and nothing else is the meaning and content of the German Revolution: The resurrection of the West![34]

This “New Europe” would be a “league of free nations.” Strasser saw this as the culmination of a long held dream among European thinkers.[35] Indeed the concept of “Europe” is a yearning with a long pedigree. In describing the Battle of Poitiers against the Arabs in AD 732 the Chronicle of Isidore of Spain refers to the Christian armies of Charles Martel as the “Europeans.” The empire of Charlemagne (AD 768–814) is named “Europe” by the contemporary chroniclers. In 755 the priest Cathwulf praised Charlemagne as ruling over “the glory of the empire of Europe.”[36] In 799 Angilbert, Charlemagne’s son-in-law and the Court poet, described the Emperor as “the father of Europe” – “Rex, pater Europae.”[37] The “Kingdom of Charles” was called “Europa” in the Annals of Fuld.[38]

While Strasser laments the “torrents of blood” that have been spilt to achieve European unity, this is because the impetus came from the desire of one nation or ruler to lead, rather than the belief in “equal standing as members of one family, as voluntary constituents of a European Federation.”[39] Yet in referring encouragingly to the “admirable efforts [of] “notable persons,” stating that “Aristide Briand and Count Coudenhove-Kalergi should be especially mentioned,”[40]

Strasser badly errs. Both these individuals represent a conception of Europe more ruinous — because it strikes at the very soul of Europe — than even those who drowned Europe in blood. Briand and Kalergi advocated an Anti-Europe, the origins of the present “European Union,” conceived in the Lodges of Masonry, based on secular-humanism, universalism, and the rule of commerce, and pushed by US interests — both Masonic and plutocratic — according to the “Europe” of their designs.[41]

Contra Strasser’s naiveté, the “European Union” of today, with its Masonic and commercial origins, is not the “New Europe” that he envisaged. The two Europes are antithetical, and at best the present regime might be regarded as a transition, in a dialectical sense, from which “New Europe” might arise. A present-day seminal thinker of the “European New Right” forcefully points out that “The present European Union is a prostrate project, a bastard, devoid of identity . . .”[42]

Europe and the United States

However, Strasser, instinctively or intuitively, proposed a Europe that is contrary to the concept promulgated by the Masonic-US-commercial interests, including those of Coundenhove-Kalergi and Briand. He eschewed “Paneuropa”[43] in favor of “a European Federation,” based on “the provisos of interconnexion, equality of rights, and voluntariness…”[44]

By the 1950s he observed the US design for Europe vis-à-vis the USSR, and unequivocally rejected it. Writing in Mosley’s journal, The European, Strasser repudiated the “ultimatum” to Europe by US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, that Europe must unite to serve US interests against Russia, with the unveiled threat that if Europe does not proceed according to US plans then Europe would be left to her own devices.

Alluding to Dulles’ statement at the 1953 NATO Conference in Paris, Strasser regarded the US plan for Europe as one that would eliminate the ancient peoples of the Continent and reduce them to a “melting pot.” If Europe complied, however, the dollars would keep flowing, and Europe could even have the blessing of US atomic bombs stationed to face off against Russia.[45]

The primary demand was for the “unification of France and Germany,” in Dulles’ words. Strasser’s reply was that if it had not been for the “interference of outside forces” in both world wars, particularly from the USA, the conflicts would not have spread, and that it is unfitting for the USA to lecture Europe on the requirements of peace while using the Russian threat as the means for imposing its agenda. To Strasser, Dulles’ “threat” that America would “remain aloof from inter-European affairs” should Europe refuse to comply with US demands, “is ravishing music to the ears of every true European.”[46]

The actual carrying out of such a welcome threat would do more to relieve the present world tension than the pumping of American atomic weapons into West Germany and the indefinite retention of American air, land and sea forces strewn all over Europe.[47]

Strasser also thought it an “insult” to state that Europe needed American protection against Russia, when President Roosevelt had not long ago handed “half the Continent” to the USSR, and that Europe was very capable of defending herself without the USA.[48] Strasser considered American “lying chatter” about “saving “ Europe and her civilization as “embarrassing to hear,” and that if Europe is really that “decadent” then no amount of US money or weapons will save her: “A tree drained of its inner vitality cannot be helped by propping up its dead branches.”

However, Strasser believed that Europe is still full of vitality, and the basis of her health is her “national and cultural differences” which America’s demand for “integration” would obliterate. Such diversity gives “shape and colour . . . to the soul of Europe!!” He regarded America’s call for European unity on US terms as “idiotic demagoguery.” Europe is what she is by virtue of the distinctiveness of Spaniards, Italians, Frenchmen, Germans, Poles, et al., and should resist becoming “one great hodgepodge unit” for the sake of more efficient production or to become a more profitable enterprise for the World Bank.[49]

Mosley did not concur. In “A Reply to Dr Strasser,” he stated that while Strasser sought to maintain separate nations, he sought “Europe a Nation.” Sir Oswald regarded that as the main difference between Strasser and himself. However, another vital question was that of their divergent attitudes toward the role of the United States in Europe. To Mosley, America had to remain the protector of Europe against Russia. Rather than an American withdrawal being, in Strasser’s terms, “ravishing music” to Europe, Mosley conjured up the image of a “ravishing” Russia over the Continent.[50]

The crux of the issue for Mosley was that: “At present we live under America; without America we should live under Russia. The difference is that under America Europe still lives, and under Russia Europe would be dead . . .” Mosley believed, contrary to Strasser, that Europe could unite “under cover” of the USA, and while ridiculing Strasser’s notion that Russia would permit Europe to regain her strength, believed that on the other hand the USA would permit Europe to unite on such a basis that she would become “much too powerful to be governed from Wall Street.”[51]

It was Mosley who was naïve in regard to the character of the United States and its pathological impact upon the soul of Europe. This is something that both Thiriart and Yockey came to realize. They saw American influence as so destructive as to consider an alliance with Russia, and in Yockey’s case at least, even the occupation of Europe by Russia was preferable to US hegemony. Yockey reassessing the world situation as early as 1952 and wrote precisely on the issue that was debated by Strasser and Mosley several years later:

The talk of “defense against Bolshevism” belongs now to yesterday, as does the nonsense of talking of “the defense of Europe” at a period when every inch of European soil is dominated by the deadly enemies of Europe, those who seek its political-cultural-historical extinction at all costs.[52]

It was fatuous enough to ask Europe to fight for America, it was silly enough to ask it to “defend itself against Bolshevism”. . . . Is there one European — just one — who would respond to this war-aim? But today, openly, without any possible disguise, this is the raison d’être of the coalition against Russia . . .[53]

Voluntarism

Mosley was to accuse Strasser of wishing to make the German military the mainstay of European defense, but Strasser had always based his policy on equality among European nations, to the extent of eliminating the Prussian basis of German militarism and reconstituting Germany as a federation of historic regions. Federation was the method for Strasser’s belief in “voluntary collaboration” (rather than “force”), which Strasser identified with the Christian spirit, and with a wider Western spirit:

In defiance of the Old Prussian prophets of Sate-hegemony and the modern German advocates of race-hegemony, the spirit of the West proclaims the fathership of God and the sonship of man — of all men — and insists upon the dependence of all human institutions (the State not excepted) upon the Law of God.[54]

Here Strasser shows himself to be very much a part of the revolutionary conservative stream of European thought,[55] looking back to the High Culture of the West in order to lay the foundations for a rebirth.

Notes

[1] Douglas Reed, Nemesis? The Story of Otto Strasser (London: Jonathan Cape, 1940), p. 275.

[2] Francis Parker Yockey, Imperium, 1948 (Sausalito, Cal.: Noontide Press, 1962).

[3] Oswald Mosley, Europe: Faith and Plan (London: Euphorion Books, 1958).

[4] The Italian Thinker Baron Julius Evola is attracting widespread interest in the English-speaking world, probably largely due to him not only being a philosopher-historian but also an exponent of Eastern and Western mysticism and occult lore. Many of his books have consequently been translated in recent years into English and are widely available. The most recent endeavor has been the publication of an anthology on Evola by sundry writers: Troy Southgate (editor) Evola: Thoughts and Perspectives Volume One (London: Black Front Press, 2011). Evola discusses his conception of European unity in Men Among the Ruins, 1972 (Rochester, Vt:. Inner Traditions International, 2002), Chapter 16: “Form and Prepositions of a United Europe,” pp. 274–86.

[5] To the English reader.

[6] Jean Thiriart, the Belgian thinker, organized the Young Europe movement during the 1960s, and was a signatory to the Venice Declaration in 1962, instigated by Sir Oswald Mosley as the basis for a National Party of Europe. The slogan of the Young Europe movement was: “Neither Moscow nor Washington” but, like Yockey, Thiriart eventually took up a pro-Russia stance as a means of undermining US hegemony, and indeed supported any movement and state that resisted the USA. See: Jean Thiriart interview with Gene H. Hogberg, http://home.alphalink.com.au/~radnat/thiriart/interview1.html

Also: Edouard Rix, “Jean Thiriart: The Machiavelli of United Europe,” Counter- Currents/North American New Right, https://counter-currents.com/2010/09/jean-thiriart/

[7] A significant exception is Troy Southgate, who has named his imprint Black Front Press, after Strasser’s organization, and has adopted for his logo Strasser’s symbol of the crossed sword and hammer. In particular, Southgate had recently authored a biography on Strasser: Troy Southgate, Otto Strasser: Life and Times of a German Socialist (London: Black Front Press, 2010).

During the 1980s Canadian John Jewell issued a photocopied bulletin called The Black Book, inspired by the Strassers and carrying Otto’s sword and hammer symbol.

[8] And it seems that English-speaking Hitlerites are the most clownish and fetishistic, whether in the USA, England, New Zealand or Australia.

[9] Douglas Reed, Nemesis? The Story of Otto Strasser (London: Jonathan Cape, 1940), pp. 39, 49–50. Reed might be recalled as the author of many books on international finance, communism and Zionism. Reed had been a successful journalist and author, serving as inter-war London Times European correspondent, until 1951 when the publication of Far and Wide brought about his censure by the mainstream media. His final book was The Controversy of Zion (Durban: Dolphin Press, 1978).

[10] Reed, Nemesis?, p. 50.

[11] Reed, Nemesis?, pp. 52–53.

[12] Reed, Nemesis?, p. 59. Gregor had formed his own Free Corp in Lower Bavaria.

[13] Reed, Nemesis?, p. 66.

[14] Spengler wrote of this:

Herein lies the secret of why all radical (i.e. poor) parties necessarily become the tools of the money-powers, the Equites, the Bourse. Theoretically their enemy is capital, but practically they attack, not the Bourse, but Tradition on behalf of the Bourse. This is as true today as it was for the Gracchuan age, and in all countries . . . (Oswald Spengler, The Decline of The West, 1918, 1926. [London: George Allen & Unwin , 1971], Vol. 2, p. 464.)

The nexus between Marxism and international finance was a matter that was to preoccupy decades of research by Otto’s English advocate Douglas Reed.

[15] Reed, Nemesis?, p. 71.

[16] Reed, Nemesis?, p. 77.

[17] Reed, Nemesis?, p. 80.

[18] Goebbels succumbed to Hitler’s arguments when attending the National Congress of the party in Munich as the only delegate with Gregor from the North German organization. Douglas Reed, Nemesis?, ibid., p. 88.

[19] Reed, Nemesis?, p. 85–86.

[20] Reed, Nemesis?, p. 90.

[21] Reed, Nemesis?, p. 92.

[22] Reed, Nemesis?, p. 135.

[23] Reed, Nemesis?, pp. 144–45.

[24] The word “Black” was intended to signify secret, although there was an above-ground movement that included a black-shirted “Black Guard” and three weekly newspapers. The focus was to infiltrate the party, SA, SS, and Labor Front. Reed, Nemesis?, pp. 120–21.

[25] Reed, Nemesis?, p. 115–17.

[26] Reed, Nemesis?, p. 119.

[27] Reed, Nemesis?, p. 130.

[28] Reed, Nemesis?, p. 129.

[29] Otto Strasser, Germany Tomorrow (London: Jonathan Cape, 1940).

[30] Douglas Reed in Germany Tomorrow, “Biographical and Bibliographical Note,” p. 12.

[31] Strasser, Germany Tomorrow, p. 19.

[32] Strasser, Germany Tomorrow, p. 30.

[33] Strasser, Germany Tomorrow, “The Aims and Methods of the Black Front,” p. 254.

[34] Otto Strasser, The Establishment of Socialism (Prague: Heinrich Grunov, 1936). Cited by Roger Griffin, Fascism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 114–15.

[35] Strasser, Germany Tomorrow, p. 100.

[36] Denis de Rougemont, The Idea of Europe (New York: Macmillan Co., 1966), p. 46.

[37] Angilbert, Monumenta germ.Poet.Carol. I, 368. Quoted by Denis de Rougemont, The Idea of Europe, p. 46.

[38] K. R. Bolton, The Faith of Europe (Paraparaumu, New Zealand: Spectrum Press, 2009).

[39] Strasser, Germany Tomorrow, p. 101.

[40] Strasser, Germany Tomorrow, p. 100.

[41] The Assistant Grand Master of Romanian Masonry, an important component of Grand Orient Masonry, Dr. Marian Mihaila, writes that, “important European Masons . . . took up the concept of a federated Europe from the 19th century and brought it into the 20th century.” Here he mentions French Foreign Minister, Briand. Dr Marian Mihaila, “European Union and Freemasonry,” Masonic Forum, http://www.masonicforum.ro/en/nr27/european.html#b_22 Of Coudenhove-Kalergi, celebrated today as the architect of the European Union, Dr. Mihaila, states:

The adepts of the idea of a united Europe are grouped — as I have shown before — in the Pan-European Movement whose supporter was also a Mason, Count Richard N. C. Kalergi. . . . He was encouraged and financed by a series of American Masons who wanted to create thus, according to the American model (the first Masonic state in history) the United States of Europe. (Dr. Marian Mihaila, ibid., “The Masonic European Community.”)

Note that Dr. Mihaila states that the Pan-Europe Movement of Coudenhove-Kalergi was funded by “American Masons.” Coudenhove-Kalergi in his book Pan Europe states that since 1924 he was befriended by the US-based banker Max Warburg, of the famous international banking dynasty, via their mutual friend Baron Louis Rothschild. Warburg remained a close friend of Coudenhov-Kalergi and financial backer of the Pan Europe Movement until his death in 1946. Richard Coundenhove-Kalergi, Pan Europe (Vienna: Pan Europa Verlag, 1923). Also: Kalergi, An Idea Conquers the World (London: Hutchison & Co., 1953). See: K. R. Bolton, The Faith of Europe, p. 21.

[42] Guillaume Faye, Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance (London: Arktos Media Ltd., 2011), p. 140.

[43] “Paneuropa” was the term used by Coudenhove-Kalergi.

[44] Strasser, Germany Tomorrow, p. 101.

[45] Otto Strasser, “The Role of Europe,” Mosley: Policy and Debate (London: Euphorion Books, 1954), p. 77.

[46] Strasser, “The Role of Europe,” p. 79.

[47] Strasser, “The Role of Europe,” p. 79.

[48] Strasser, “The Role of Europe,” p. 79.

[49] Strasser, “The Role of Europe,” p. 80.

[50] Oswald Mosley, “A Reply to Dr Strasser,” Mosley: Policy and Debate, p. 84.

[51] Mosley, “A Reply to Dr Strasser,” p. 85.

[52] Francis Parker Yockey, Prague Treason Trial, 1952, p. 3.

[53] Francis Parker Yockey, Prague Treason Trial, p. 9.

[54] Strasser, Germany Tomorrow, p. 69.

[55] Strasser stated that he was “a conservative as well as a revolutionary.” Strasser, Germany Tomorrow, p. 64.

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4 comments

  1. Razvan says:
    May 18, 2011 at 3:48 am

    Excellent article and extremely informative. I want to thank you for the wealth of informations.

    Still I am not sure that Mosley was so naive compared to Strasser. Nor that “The Prague Treason Trials” were capturing the entire truth.

    Now, it would be useful to make a parallel between “Aristide Briand and Coudenhove-Kalergi” axis and “Komintern – Emil Borisovici Valev” axis so to speak.

    My opinion is that “Europe” was the victim of a grand scale blackmail between two gangs – both gangs jewish led, financed and motivated. I mean USSR and US governments playing (probably unwittingly) “bad cop, good cop”. No one can say for sure that it had been better the other way. Nor how many entire peoples would have been deported or exterminated by Russians (at their jewish masters instigations).

    The fact that Strasser wrote about federation, voluntarism, equality, justice (I firmly believe in the same ideas, I keep the same distrust in Lebensraum idea and strongly prefer the historical right over territory) it doesn’t mean that in any eventuality the Politburo members would had given a damn (probably they would have shared a good laugh and some vodka).

    Otherwise, even Engels and Marx talked about the evils done by the Tsarist Empire against the occupied people, and that the Russians have no right to occupy a large swath of European territory where they were invaders. Lenin and Stalin didn’t give a damn about it, and scraped urgently the so called “people right to self-determination”. First thing to do? Invade Romania and Poland. Romania being attacked by Russian and Hungarian Bolsheviks in same time (1919).

    Why the Politburo would have considered what Strasser or Yockey had to say? What would make the Russians to consider today?

    I read the opinions of a Russian politician talking about “the peril of Romanisation of Republic Moldova and its menace to the Russia’s security”. Andrei Klimov deputy of Russian Parliament, chairman of the “European Cooperation” subcommittee in an interview with Inforussia. The newest US anti-missile station would infringe the unalienable Russian right to bomb everything it wants in Eastern Europe.
    Same ideas found at the George Soros NGOs in another form. Of course, no excuse for the genocide against Romanians. No excuse for mass deportations. No excuse for Russification. Scrap it. Pay another anti-Romanian press campaign in Italy. Hit them where it hurts more. Propaganda works better than any other time.

    Paul Goma’s “Red week” would clarify what the Russians did in Europe, with the Jews and by themselves, and would cast a huge doubt over the idea that the former are ready to drop their malign imperialism in order to save Europe. More than that, saving the westernmost part in exchange for an unlimited right to kill and plunder in its eastern part would be naive, hypocritical and finally suicidal. Do not make the same mistake twice.

    Because Goma is less known it doesn’t mean he is less than Solzhenitsyn (who is gigantic indeed). He is still punished by the Jews for what he wrote. And Goma is a good example. Because he lived them all. If not killed in a Romanian prison, he risked being blown away in Paris. Starving in Bucharest, same in Paris at the hands of the same Jewish culturniks. Some in the name of “communism”, some in the name of “capitalism”. Now, if the Pale of Settlement was good for the Russians it was devastating for the occupied peoples of the Empire. Occupied by Russians, exploited by Jews. This is the background of Paul Goma. This is why he is big but won’t ever get a Nobel.

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  2. Proofreader says:
    May 18, 2011 at 5:08 am

    He was also impressed by Gen. [= General] Ludendorff’s statement . . . [‘General’ is used below with ‘General Schleicher’]

    Otto succumbed to his bother’s [= brother’s] further urgent appeals . . .

    Gregor stayed with the party and maintained his North German stronghold with party luminaries such as Goebbels,[18] Victor Lutze, Kerrl and Bernard Rust, et al. [Delete the ‘and’ before ‘Bernard Rust’ and replace with comma; the ‘et’ in ‘et al.’ makes this ‘and’ superfluous]

    Otto however had no illusions about Hitler and had formed the Union of Revolutionary National Socialists, or Black Front . . . [suggest using the article ‘the’ with ‘Black Front’]

    The following paragraph should be offset:

    The actual carrying out of such a welcome threat would do more to relieve the present world tension than the pumping of American atomic weapons into West Germany and the indefinite retention of American air, land and sea forces strewn all over Europe.[47]

    [4] The Italian Thinker [= thinker] Baron Julius Evola . . .

    Evola: Thoughts and Perspectives[,] Volume One (London: Black Front Press, 2011)

    Thiriart eventually took up a pro-Russia [= pro-Russian] stance

    In particular, Southgate had recently authored a biography on Strasser: Troy Southgate, Otto Strasser: Life and Times of a German Socialist (London: Black Front Press, 2010). [suggest deleting “Troy Southgate” before the title on the grounds of repetition, and replacing the colon with a comma]

    Gracchuan [= Gracchan]

    The text of most of Douglas Reed’s books, including those on Otto Strasser (Nemesis? and The Prisoner of Ottawa), can be found online at:

    http://www.douglasreed.co.uk/

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    1. Kerry Bolton says:
      May 18, 2011 at 4:09 pm

      Proofreader:
      Thanks for poitning out the errors. I am not very good at proofreading my own work, obviously. The corrections have been included in a hardcopy version of the essay. Thanks also for pointing out an online source for Reed’s books.

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  3. White Republican says:
    May 18, 2011 at 5:34 am

    Kerry Bolton,

    Have you read Kurt P. Tauber’s Beyond Eagle and Swastika: German Nationalism Since 1967 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1967)? This work might well be informative concerning Otto Strasser’s postwar activities and influence in Germany, as well as German nationalist views on geopolitics, so it should interest you.

    I admittedly have only browsed through this massive work at an academic library–it has two large volumes, and the second volume is devoted entirely to the bibliography and references–but from what I’ve seen of it, it’s an impressively well researched and highly detailed work, despite its biases.

    I believe that Tauber, unlike most writers in the field, does not try to reduce postwar German nationalism to neo-Nazism: it was and is a much more complex phenomenon. This is not surprising given the complexity of its predecessors (cf. Armin Mohler’s work on the Conservative Revolution) and the problems faced by postwar German nationalism.

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