THE GERMAN NATION AS A LIVING ORGANISM
Richard A. Koenigsberg
Hitler's Ideology: A Study in Psychoanalytic Sociology

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“The best critical analysis in English of Hitler’s thought.” --Colin Day

To understand how an ideology and social movement were created based on a phantasy projected into reality--begin with Hitler and Nazism. The bedrock of the Holocaust and the 2nd World War was Hitler's conception of Germany an actual body or living organism. From this phantasy, everything followed.

Table 1. The Country is a Living Organism

Statement Number Statement Source
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1 France was tearing piece after piece out of the flesh of our national body. MK 133
2 Could anyone believe that Germany alone was not subject to exactly the same laws as all other human organisms? MK 155
3 Our movement alone was capable of creating...a national organism. MK 329
4 From a dead mechanism (the state) there must be formed a living organism. MK 398
5 It will be the task of a folkish state to make certain...that...an influx of fresh blood...takes place. MK 432
6 An attempt to restore the border of 1914 would lead to a further bleeding of our national body...so that there would be no worthwhile blood left. MK 651
7 In case of a war...the German nation (would be) bled white. MK 659
8 The state...is a "volkic" organism. S-I 85
9 In place of...the State--must be set the living organism--the people. S-I

188
10 The towns would not exist...if the peasant did not fill them with his blood. S-I 242
11 What remains is the substance, a substance of flesh and blood, our nation. S-I 433
12 The "living substance," the German people, is a present reality. S-I 441
13 (The) task...was...to build up the entire administration (of the state)...until it became a close organic whole, pulsing with life. S-I 486
14 So much blood has been drawn off...into German economic life abroad...that the circulation has been stopped. S-I 829
15 Economics...is a living process, one of the functions of that body which is the people. S-I 851
16 The Polish Corridor...is like a strip of flesh cut from our body...a national wound that bleeds continuously, and will continue to bleed till the land is returned to us. S-I 995
17 The German people...had become a body corporate pulsing through and through with a vital inner life. S-I 1253
MK: Hitler, A. (1962). Mein Kampf (R. Mannheim trans.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
S-I: Baynes, N. H. (Ed.). (1942). The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, Vol. 1. New York: Oxford University Press.