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From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations. We are the transition from one education to the other. We are the conquerors of one era and the founders of a new - also religious - epoch. We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny. To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do. But to establish its cause upon nothing and yet not to burn all bridges behind it: that is the nobility of character of the National Socialist era. The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility. The place of Christian love has been taken by the National Socialist, Germanic idea of comradeship...which has already been symbolically expressed through the replacement of the rosary by the spade of labour.

Alfred Rosenberg#1

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About this quote

What does it mean?
Transition from church to Germanic education marks a revolutionary shift, claiming a noble destiny and a new epoch of comradeship replacing Christian love.
In plain terms
A new era replaces Christian values with Germanic comradeship.
What can you take from it?
Recognize the ideological shift and its claimed purpose.

Where it applies

  • historical analysis
  • political discourse
  • cultural studies

Putting it to work

  • study educational reforms
  • compare ideological narratives

Questions to consider

  • What does 'nobility of character' mean in this context?
  • How does this shift affect individual freedoms?

Another view

The claim of nobility ignores the violent and oppressive aspects of the regime.

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  3. I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.

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