The Role of History in the Construction of Identity: National Socialism’s Appropriation of German Romantic Ideals
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Through discourse and social memory, history is continually imported to the present to fulfill certain socio-political demands or perceived inadequacies that the present cannot address. In Germany following the First World War, National Socialism‘s virulent appropriation of German Romantic principles provides an example of the past‘s resurrection to serve the needs of the present. The significance of these two movements exhibits not only the role of history in constructing identities but also the power of national sentiments in collective mobilization.
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