ABSTRACT
All research on the history of National Socialism, as well as every assess-
ment of the actions of the National Socialists, presupposes knowledge of
the religious dimensions of the National Socialist world-view. The majority
of discourses on almost all topics involving National Socialism are char-
acterised by a sterile agitation. One of the causes of this is that the value of
the question as to whether the National Socialist world-view possessed
religious dimensions has scarcely been discussed – either within the public
realm or in the research. Further: National Socialist ideology is reduced to racism, and this in turn to biologism. Yet this serves only the proliferative
goal of continually raising problems without ever being able to solve them.
Because the question as to whether National Socialism is a political religion
or not is not even properly debated,1 the immediate goal of this contribu-
tion is to document as concisely as possible the connection of politics and
religion in Rosenberg’s Mythus. (The complete and telling title of the work
is Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts: Eine Wertung des seelisch-geistigen
Gestaltenka¨mpfe unserer Zeit.) All complexities that move beyond this2 – complexities whose discourses would have to change if it were the case that
National Socialism is a political religion – cannot be treated here.
