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Escape from Pindostan's avatar

Piffle. Jünger was not responsible for what happened in World War 2, nor was he supposed ro be the leader, yes his writing changes but still has power. He aged. Something that will happen to you,soon, Wait. Most of my do or die ideas from my bedore 30s seem foolhardy, retarded or outdated. He didnt stop being a warrior. He kept at it. Name one other top writer, personality in Hitlerian Germany who repeatedly flipped off the regime? He told them no every single time. No, Im mot going on Goebbels radio, No, Im not heading the Literary Society, No, Im not taking a seat in the Reichstag, No, Im not foing to sit idly by in Paris as the regime slaughters Jews, No, Im mot going to shut my mouth. Ad infinitum. Its crass, puerile,insane even to say he is as much to blame as Hitler. Passive aggresive? Goddamn, the man snubs a psychotic murderous freak/ devil to his fucking face , numerous times and a modern day " trad wife" calls him passive aggressive?

Thankfully, the choices for leaders arent only sacrifice myself or have my people erased. Thats inane.

What heroic age are you talking about? Nobody is going back anywhere. There were no Golden Ages.

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☩🌲A Forest Rebel🌲☩'s avatar

You make very bold claims about how Jünger could've "beaten" Hitler to forming the National Socialists' ideology, but this just isn't true. Anton Drexler had already formed the basis for Nazism and had created the DAP by 1919, and Hitler joined that in 1920. By 1920 the party had solidified its ideology. Jünger hadn't even published Storm of Steel yet, and was in the Army until 1923. His interwar articles and other writings of that time were already being opposed by the Nazis because Jünger associated with some National Bolsheviks and those adjacent to NazBols. Jünger was opposed to Nazism from the start, and to pretend as if he could've or should've "taken control" of Nazism and led Germany instead is a complete misread of the situation and frankly displays a lack of knowledge of the history of Germany at that time. This article doesn't cite any historical sources or back up any claims, especially the wild assertion that Jünger personally failed by not becoming Führer or that he didn't do enough (as if those were even possibilities or within the realm of what Jünger actually wanted for Germany and for himself). As Jünger quickly realized, national romanticism was not going to save Germany, but this is what most wanted.

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