“There is nothing romantic about Nazism...”
But there IS! Of course, we are talking of a very different meaning of “romantic”. People get hung up on that. But a bit of wiki should clear it up.
Suggested reading by Paul Johnson, excellent starters -
“The Birth of the Modern”
“Modern Times”
Nazism is part of the same ethno-essentialist movement as all the rest. It derives from the same root as German nationalism. As did all that 19th century interest in ancient ethnic folklore - as in, for instance, Wagner. But also Beethoven, Goethe, Schiller, etc.
And the ideas of Mussolini are just a development of the Italian Risorgimento, which profoundly influenced Hitler.
Even Hegel was influenced. And Hegel was an essential route to Marx. And Marx to Lenin to Hitler, by another route, in spite of the incongruity.
Every route to Hitler started in German romanticism.
“NAZISM is part of the same ethno-essentialist movement as all the rest. It derives from the same root as German nationalism. As did all that 19th century interest in ancient ethnic folklore - as in, for instance, Wagner. But also Beethoven, Goethe, Schiller, etc.
And the ideas of Mussolini are just a development of the Italian Risorgimento, which profoundly influenced Hitler.
Even Hegel was influenced. And Hegel was an essential route to Marx. And Marx to Lenin to Hitler, by another route, in spite of the incongruity.Every route to Hitler started in German romanticism.”
TRUTH
https://www.britannica.com/art/Romanticism
“Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality that typified Classicism in general and late 18th-century Neoclassicism in particular... predilection for the exotic, the remote, the mysterious, the weird, the occult, the monstrous, the diseased, and even the satanic.”
The second phase of Romanticism, comprising the period from about 1805 to the 1830s, was marked by a quickening of cultural nationalism and a new attention to national origins, as attested by the collection and imitation of native folklore, folk ballads and poetry, folk dance and music