Fritz Stern, University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, is the author of The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology. This essay is adapted from a speech that he gave at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York last year.
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A Fundamental History Lesson
The rise of National Socialism proved politics and religion don't mix
Fritz Stern
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