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Berliner who first thought of such a possibility, who initiated the project, and who oversaw the development of its various stages. Michael Berliner that I bring out this reduced version of my book. But the artists and scholars still have no real explanation they are no closer than they were in 1982 to identifying the fundamental roots of Nazism.įor this reason, I agreed with the suggestion of Dr. To this day, Nazism remains vivid in the public mind as the greatest evil in human history, and continues to be the subject or background of countless novels, films, and nonfiction analyses. Unlike The Ominous Parallels, this substantial portion of it is offered not primarily as a warning but rather as an explanation. The Soviet Empire has collapsed, but the ideas of irrationalism, self-sacrifice, and collectivism still dominate and fuel murderous tyrannies, primarily now in the upsurging Middle East, but elsewhere, too. There is no improvement in the thirty years since, no change in the basic ideas ruling the United States (and the West as a whole). Given our cultural state, however, I did not expect any such warning to be heeded or even heard, and it wasn’t. The book, accordingly, studied American culture and history in as much detail as that given to Germany. In the book, I intended a warning: If Americans continue to accept and act on the same philosophic ideas that led to the Third Reich, then America will have to follow a parallel course and suffer the same result.
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The Cause of Hitler’s Germany is about two-thirds of The Ominous Parallels, a book of mine first published in 1982. All rights reserved.:Īs Ayn Rand indicates in her introduction, this book demonstrates how German philosophy led to Hitler and the Holocaust. He also hosted the national radio talk show "Philosophy: Who Needs It." Excerpt. He grew up in Western Canada and now lives in Southern California. Peikoff is the author of The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out and The Cause of Hitler’s Germany. He has taught philosophy at several places, including Hunter College and New York University. He worked closely with Rand in New York City for thirty years and was designated by her as heir to her estate. Leonard Peikoff is the preeminent Ayn Rand scholar writing today.