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Jun 26, 2023 · Jünger’s writing gives off an odor of hypermasculine onanism; there are almost no women, and there is almost no sex. Among his more grating qualities is an inability to admit his mistakes:...
After the fall of the Third Reich, Jünger refused to undergo an Allied denazification procedure, asserting that he was never a Nazi. Major Works. Jünger's earlier work is in journal form...
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[1] He wrote against liberal values, democracy, and the Weimar Republic, but rejected the advances of the Nazis who were rising to power. During World War II Jünger served as an army captain in occupied Paris, but by 1943 he had turned decisively against Nazi totalitarianism, a change manifested in his work "Der Friede" ( The Peace ).
- Diaries, novels
- 17 February 1998 (aged 102), Riedlingen, Germany
- War
Jan 30, 2024 · When it comes to Jünger’s views on the war contained in The Peace, it is especially important that we remember the context of its writing. We can uncover a lot through the Author’s Foreword. Jünger began writing it in the winter of 1941 and the essay was completed in its final form in the summer of 1943.
Overview. Storm of Steel, written by Ernst Jünger, is a memoir of World War I first published in German as In Stahlgewittern in 1920. The final revised edition came in 1961 and was translated into English in 1978.
The book was not censored in Nazi Germany, perhaps due to Jünger's significant repute in right-wing circles. Its sharp disapproval of violent masses, as well as its prediction or description of death camps, was noted and helped Jünger's rehabilitation after the Second World War although he had not gone into exile like most anti-Nazi authors ...
Winner of Germany’s highest literary awards, Ernst Jünger is regularly disparaged in the German press. His writings, as this book indicates, put him at an unimpeachable remove from the Nazis, but neo-Nazi rightists in Germany have rushed to embrace him.
