Reflections of Nazism Quotes

“But faced with a kitsch representation of death, everyone knows that here two contradictory elements are amalgamated: on the one hand, an appeal to harmony, to emotional communication at the simplest and most immediate level; on the other, solitude and terror. It has often been said tha tone of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extremem situations,' particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.”
― Saúl FRIEDLANDER, Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death

“In fact, an analysis on the new discourse, in reveling a deep structure based on the coexistence of the adoration of power with a dream of final explosion - the annulment of all power - puts us on the track of certain foundations of the psychological hold of Nazism itself, of a particular kind of bondage nourished by the simultaneous desires for absolute submission and total freedom.”
― Saúl FRIEDLANDER, Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death