ABSTRACT
For the first ten or so years after the First World War, the development of cultural activities in Germany was very similar to that in England and France. There was the same destruction and breaking down of accepted beliefs and customs, and the same attempts to build, from a scientific basis, something new to put in their place. The reasons why it was the Nazi cure which was accepted were of course complex, as reasons always are in social affairs. One of the main causes was that in Germany, as in the rest of the world to this day, the forces which were defining a new outlook of a scientific type had failed to realise their unity. It also had been unable to get themselves across to people with sufficient clarity and explicitness to constitute a strong volume of powerfully held belief. All the other fascist philosophies have the same fundamental baselessness as the Nazi system.
