NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96 Page 46 · 46 of 272
THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96
English Translation
44.) has been growing. This all saw a new essential element in the whole National Socialist theory - the well-known idea of popularism, The idea of folkism is again only a foggy, unclear Romantisoher myth, with which often very primitive peoples have distinguished themselves when they saw their various myths either from nature, or from their former life and history. But the myth of "popularism", today, plays a major role in practical German politics. The emphasis on the romantic concept of "popularism" is, in fact, that filthy primitive conception of nationalism and patriotism, which uncritically and exaggeratedly proclaims and demands the return from the urbanist culture, from the higher literary, artistic and spiritual culture in general to the so-called living sources and powers of the socialized people, and calls for it to be inspired by it, to give it its local, local, mass and anonymous coloration, in which the effective manifestation of the people, their spirit, their original qualities to see - and thus to defend against everything foreign, unnational, cosmopolitan and international. As far as these aspirations are cared for with measure, and in them realistisohe marks and bigenart, the character and characteristics of the simple people of which nation always without their mythical and philosophical-sophical-historical meanings, it is good and riohti-ish aspirations. But the National Socialism has far exceeded this measure and all this unscientifically