The author, who, together with Ernst Jünger, Franz Schauwecker, Ernst von Salomon and others, was one of the writers of the "Conservative Revolution" after the First World War, describes the fateful German decade from 1908 to 1918 in his memoirs. Through the Boy Scout movement, part of which later formed the Bund youth, the nature-loving boy found his way to an anti-bourgeois, patriotic attitude to life, which subsequently brought him closer to the circle around Stefan George. On 3 May 1916, he joined the reserve battalion of the Guards Fusilier Regiment as a war volunteer and from September 1917 took part in numerous battles in Flanders and France. It is not the "aesthetics of horror" of Ernst Jünger that underpins these war experiences, but the experience of endured suffering and proven comradeship. In the language of a young front-line soldier, "Durchbruch ins Reich" reflects the experiences of a generation for whom battle, service, community, dedication and sacrifice brought the idea of a new Reich and a united German nation to life.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Heinz, F. W.
Title
Durchbruch ins Reich
Details
127 pages.
State
new
Bublies Verlag OT Schnellbach: Bergstr.11 56290 Beltheim Deutschland
