The ultimate goal was a loose confederation of Germanic tribes whose roots lay deep in the primeval forest. Scandinavian groups in Poland, Hungary and Russia would be allowed to join as they too sprang from the German forest. The old gods were not dead. They were only sleeping. They had been dispossessed by the Christian myth, which, hostile to instinct and nature, had weakened the German spirit, devitalising and dehumanising it. Now strength, courage and vitality would again stand as the true virtues of manhood, casting aside introspection, intellectualism and morbid consciousness. The pagan
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