Black Earth(148)

Hitler exploited images Cf. White, “Historical Roots.”

Knowledge of the body See Engel, Holocaust, 15.

When paradise falls See Valentino, Final Solutions, 168, J?ckel, Hitler in History, 47. Cf. Sarraute, L’ère du soup?on, 77, and Arendt, Origins, 242: “The hatred of the racists against the Jews sprang from a superstitious apprehension that it might actually be the Jews, and not themselves, whom God has chosen, to whom success was granted by divine providence.” On wordview as faith, see B?rsch, Die politische Religion, 276–77.

Hitler’s presentation Mein Kampf, 73. This invocation of divine will, the last sentence of chapter 2 of Mein Kampf, was cited by Carl Schmitt as he opened his conference on the struggle of German jurisprudence against the Jewish spirit: “Er?ffnung,” 14. Cf. the concept of “redemptive antisemitism” in Friedl?nder, Years of Extermination.

Hitler saw the species “Unnatur”: Mein Kampf, 69. See also Mein Kampf, 287; S?mtliche Aufzeichnungen, 462–63; Chapoutot, “La loi du sang,” 391; Poliakov, Sur les traces, 212, 217; Bauman, Modernity, 68; Arendt, Origins, 202.

Hitler’s basic critique On Himmler, see Kühne, Belonging, 60; Chapoutot, “La loi du sang,” 374, 405. Cf. Steiner, In Bluebeard’s Castle, 45.

If states were not impressive Hans Frank quotations: “Ansprach,” 8; “Einleitung,” 141. For Schmitt see “Neue Leits?tze,” 516. Cf. Arendt, Essays in Understanding, 290, 295.

Insofar as universal ideas Child: Table Talk, 7. For Hitler’s claim that “Jewish” ideas are all the same: Mein Kampf, 66 and passim. On Jesus: B?rsch, Die politische Religion, 286–87; on Saint Paul: Chapoutot, “L’historicité nazie,” 50. See also Thies, Architekt, 29.

Indeed, for Hitler there was No history: Mein Kampf, 291. Always destroys: Table Talk, 314, similarly at 248; see also S?mtliche Aufzeichnungen, 907; Thies, Architekt, 42. No future: Second Book, 10. It is true that Hitler calls history his favorite subject in Mein Kampf, but what he means is his hazy intuition of the forces behind the facts.

Though Hitler strove to define Mann cited after Poliakov, Histoire de l’antisémitisme, 357. Stein: Self-Portrait in Letters, 9. See Zehnpfennig, Hitlers Mein Kampf, 128; Burrin, Hitler et les Juifs, 23.

For Hitler, the conclusion Gassing: Husson, Heydrich, 41.

Hitler saw both the struggle “Geistiger Pestilenz”: Mein Kampf, 66. Healthy reaction: cited after Govrin, Jewish Factor, 7. Entire continent: Staatsm?nner, 557.

The fall of man Table Talk, 314. Cf. Friedl?nder, “Some Reflections,” 100.

Equating nature and politics Zehnpfennig’s interpretation is similar: Hitlers Mein Kampf, 116. See also Neumann, Behemoth, 140.

Hitler accepted that scientists See Jonas, Imperative of Responsibility, 29.

Hitler understood that agricultural Best case, limit, scientific methods, own land: Second Book, 16, 21, 74, 103. “Todgef?hrliche Gedankeng?nge”: Mein Kampf, 141.

Hitler had to defend Mein Kampf, 282–83.

The world’s problem Anarchic state: Husson, Heydrich, 256. “Wohin man die Juden schicke, nach Sibirien oder nach Madagascar, sei gleichgültig,” July 21, 1941, Staatsm?nner, 557.





1. Living Space


Although Hitler’s premise was See Vincent, Politics of Hunger, 126ff; Offer, Agrarian Interpretation, 2, 24, 25, 59. These works emphasize moral and political discomfort brought by the blockade. Leonhard estimates 700,000 dead, which is considerably more than Vincent and Offer seem to suggest. Die Büchse der Pandora, 518.

The world political economy Peaceful economic war: Second Book, 10. Cf. Offer, Agrarian Interpretation, 82, 83, 217.

Hitler understood that Germany Autarkic economy: Table Talk, 73. German peasants: Mein Kampf, chap. 2.

The British were to be respected Division of the world: Hildebrand, Vom Reich, 654. Armageddon: Second Book, 76. See also Mein Kampf, 145.

It was also reassuring The Japanese, for example, tried without success to persuade Hitler to treat the British rather than the Soviets as the main enemy. See Hauner, India in Axis Strategy, 378, 383–84.

America taught Hitler that need Benchmark: Second Book, 21. Cf. Guettel, “Frontier.” Guettel is quite right that the number of references to the United States in Mein Kampf is limited, though the passages are very powerfully suggestive. Hitler proclaims, for example, that the United States is the model of the new kind of empire, mastering contiguous territories by racial unity (144). The logic described here is even more apparent in the Second Book. And as Guettel himself notes, the treatment of Americans as masters of space was ubiquitous in the rhetoric of German colonialists; Hitler’s references would have been clear. In any case the point is that America defined a global situation in which standards of living were comparative and relative. See also Fischer, Hitler and America, 18, 21, 28; Thies, Architekt, 50.