![]() Thomas Mann, for one, was anything but a flaming nationalist, but he wrote at length about the need to defend Germany’s unique cultural profundity. Many Germans were happy to agree.Īfter world war broke out in 1914, German intellectuals rallied in indignant defense of a superior culture besieged by barbarians. Richard Wagner’s English son-in-law, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, even wrote a weighty tome arguing that the Germans were the only true heirs of classical Greece and Rome. Their soldiers were unmatched.ĭid this German superiority bode well or ill for the new century? Some foreigners served up dire warnings, but others were rapt admirers. Their scientists and engineers were clearly the best. Their philosophy was more profound - to a fault. ![]() By 1900, nearly everyone agreed that there was something special about the Germans. ![]()
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