Nationalist Book Review

 5. The Spiritual Foundations of America Actually, we make it a little easy for ourselves to explain the alienating and shameful, basically thoroughly incomprehensible fact that the entire New World was opened up and conquered without our participation and involvement. Almost all the peoples of Europe sent their sons across the Atlantic as explorers and conquerors: Spaniards and Portuguese, Italians and Dutch, English and French, even Danes and Swedes. They all discovered, conquered, settled, and only the Germans stayed away. They alone went empty-handed, remained without a share in the wide world and the rich booty that was distributed at that time. If we generally console ourselves with the fact that Germany at that time was not an empire but only a geographical concept, that it was powerless, torn apart and shut off from the sea of the world, this is no excuse. On the contrary, the Germans were the closest in reason. They had the best opportunity and the first right. With Charle...

  4. A German names America It was 1507 and Columbus had been dead for a year. The great explorer had believed that he had reached India by the westward route. He bitterly opposed the emerging suspicion that the islands and coasts he had discovered did not belong to Asia. This suspicion, however, became stronger and stronger, and before the great Genoese died, it was already almost certain that the newly discovered lands were neither India nor Cipangu, but a completely new world that lay beyond the Atlantic, fabulous, alluring and - nameless. What is a name? Is it just smoke and mirrors? Is it indifferent whether a man, a country, a thing carries this or that name? Or does it rather form a part of its being? Does the name have an effect on its bearer? I once became very thoughtful about this question. It was on Yule Island. This is a small, paradisiacal, beautiful island on the south coast of New Guinea. It is quite remote; only once a month does a small coastal steamer call. It is...

The "German Belt." Over 25 million Americans are of German descent (about one in four white Americans). About 7 million Americans were born in Germany or of German parents. Over 6 of these 7 million live in the "German Belt," the northern states from the Atlantic to the Rockies. In these, they make up the following percentage of the population:  3. The German History of America "Our America" - that sounds strange in the mouth of a German. We have become accustomed to seeing in America a daughter state of Great Britain. Even today I read the treatise of a well-known German politician and geographer who wrote of England and the United States of America as the two Anglo-Saxon states. At the same time, I heard a German who is about to become an American citizen passionately defend the character of America as an Anglo-Saxon country. The Anglo-Saxon character of the United States is the most compelling example of the shaping power of a consistently championed id...