NATIONAL SOCIALISM WAS A DISASTER by Daniel Gurpide National-Socialism was “not

NATIONAL SOCIALISM WAS A DISASTER

by Daniel Gurpide

National-Socialism was “not that bad” compared to the economic chaos and civil-war spirit which characterized the Weimar Republic; otherwise, it was a disaster:

-The NS economic recipe (Keynesianism+Autarky+Welfare State) made military expansionism (Lebensraum) unavoidable.

-Pan-Germanism necessarily provoked Pan-Slavism and the rest of fratricidal petty nationalisms. Only after Stalingrad did the III Reich raise the flag of Europe (the only reality with potential historically to mobilise the European population) when everything was already lost.

-Eugenics, a promising movement which had taken root in most Western countries, was forced to a halt due to the pseudo-scientific misuse of genetics and racial studies by NS Germany.

-Aryanism, an eminently aristocratic project, was trampled under plebeian foot.

Is there anything to be rescued from the Hitlerian adventure?