(Under the heading: �ANTI-RACIST HYPOCRISY�)

The idea that Nazism was motivated primarily by a typically Leftist hunger for change and excitement is reinforced by the now famous account of life in Nazi Germany given by a young �Aryan� who lived through it. Originally written before World War II, Haffner�s (2002) account of why Hitler rose to power stresses the boring nature of ordinary German life and observes that the appeal of the Nazis lay in their offering of relief from that: “The great danger of life in Germany has always been emptiness and boredom … The menace of monotony hangs, as it has always hung, over the great plains of northern and eastern Germany, with their colorless towns and their all too industrious, efficient, and conscientious business and organizations. With it comes a horror vacui and the yearning for ’salvation’: through alcohol, through superstition, or, best of all, through a vast, overpowering, cheap mass intoxication.” So he too saw the primary appeal of Nazism as its offering of change, novelty and excitement.

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