ABSTRACT

Nothing must bar this glance or make it blind itself. In the following there is mention of various old and peculiar elements.1 There have been crooks at work, and how, but one must keep a close eye not only on the crook’s fingers but also on that which he holds in them. Particularly if he has stolen it, if the soiled object was once in better hands. Hence there is no getting out of examining the concepts which the Nazi has both employed and purloined for the purpose of deception, but one to be ended. Führer, and above all Reich thus crop up, and if their meaning originally to be ended is investigated, they crop up in a different, more thoughtful way than has been customary of late. The material is still largely fresh, but that which blindness and crime have done with it is and had to become precisely all the more rotten. The somewhat dreamy essence of the matter was moreover often open to abuse. But even something beautiful and noble shines across from forgotten, unforgotten days, it is important to recall this.