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 | Romanticism, in reaction against the rationalism of the 18th century, it was a movement in philosophy and the arts, and a set of attitudes, in the latter part of the 18th c., initiated in Germany and England; it glorified feeling, emotion, sentimentality and the special characteristics of the historic past. |
| To Volkish thinkers, the Enlightenment and parliamentary democracy were foreign ideas that corrupted the pure German spirit; they denounced the liberal-humanist tradition of the West as alien to German soul. |
| Volkish thinkers were especially attracted to racist doctrines, and extreme nationalism was combined with racism -belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others; discrimination or prejudice based on race. |
| 16 Fascism Part 2 (4694 words) |
| With fanatical devotion, Volkish thinkers embraced all things German—the medieval past, the German landscape, the simple peasant, the village— and denounced the humanist tradition as alien to the German soul. |
| Volkish thinkers claimed that the ‘German race’ was purer than, and therefore superior to, all other races. |
| Volkish thinkers regarded Jews as the antithesis of Germans and everything German; thus, just as Germans embodied everything good, Jews were depicted as embodying everything evil, wicked and depraved. |
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