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Nazis came to power in 1933, Hitler and his staff of generals
undertook a campaign to "inculcate romantic sentiments," and within
a short time, German society came to adopt the nonsensical assertions
of romantic nationalism. At the end of the 1930's, the overwhelming
majority of Germans came to believe that soon a "German Empire"
(Third Reich) would be founded that would govern the whole world
and last for a thousand years. In order to bring about their awaited
destiny, they believed that the German race needed to be "purified"
through the elimination of all minorities in the country. They also
believed that Hitler was an unassailable and unconquerable "leader"
(Führer), possessed of supernatural powers who would lead them to
certain victory. Listening teary-eyed to Hitler's angry, belligerent,
paranoid and discriminatory speeches, the masses were bewitched
and lost all sense of reality.
The famous Nazi Nuremberg rallies were a clear manifestation of
"romantic brain washing." The American researchers Michael Baigent,
Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, describe these meetings in these
words:
The notorious Nuremberg rallies were not political rallies of the kind
that occur in the West today but cunningly stage-managed theatre of
the kind, for example, that formed an integral component of Greek