ABSTRACT
The chapter examines Ernst Jünger's conception of the imagined community of workers and soldiers, which ultimately comes down to something comparable to the blood and flames of Rosenberg. Jünger's version of Fascism utopized the dynamism anchored in the myths that stimulate experience. Jünger used the war, which he wrote about after 1914, as a utopian model for an alternative society. He wished to form the younger generation which had returned from the war to unemployment. Jünger wished to replace their materialistic, meaningless existence to a future which would institutionalize the heroic and spiritual values of the “masculine community” as it was exemplified during the World War I. He combined the myth of the war and the myth of technology to create a utopian vision of modernity. Jünger is an exemplary case of the origination of fascist motivations in the World War I: he bears the image of a European writer who played a conciliatory role in relations between France and Germany. The German war hero was an honoured guest at the openings of museums and exhibitions and at military ceremonies in memory of the fallen in the World War I.
