There are two different opinions regarding Germany's move towards Nazism in the 1930s and how it reacted to modernity. The notion of a conservative revolution in Germany sees the move to Nazism as a rejection of the changes of the Nineteenth-century in an attempt to move to a better future. Similarly, the idea of a reactionary modernism sees a movement for a rejection of certain parts of the modern heritage, much in accord with notions …
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…find its own course and solution. When you factor in the reparations that were economically destroying any chance for Germany's own recovery from the war, and then you realize that the rest of Europe was in fact making Hitler's own case that they were being destroyed by outsides, it is no wonder that Hitler's appeal to turn the country away from all that came before it, including modernism, was able to resonate with the people.