Summary of Friedrich Reck's Diary of a Man in Despair

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Spengler was a man of great human greatness and small and large frailties. He was the kind of man who liked to eat alone, and he would often declaim the entire time.
#2 Spengler was the most humorless man I have ever met. He was also the most sensitive to even the smallest criticism. He despised humbug, but he would not allow any inaccuracies or errors to stand uncorrected.
#3 Spengler’s prophecy of the approaching Dostoyevskian Christianity was made in 1922 in the second volume of Decline. But his followers began to leave him around 1926, when he made his peace with contemporary Germany and its businessmen-on-horseback.
#4 The German Revolution is based on simple blackmail. The Nazis found out in 1932 that Oskar von Hindenburg owed 13 million marks, and used this to blackmail him into naming Hitler chancellor.

Sujets

• Autobiography
• Politics
• Biography
• Lettres et linguistique
• Political

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 24 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822547476
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Friedrich Reck's Diary of a Man in Despair
Contents Insights from Chapter 1
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Spengler was a man of great human greatness and small and large frailties. He was the kind of man who liked to eat alone, and he would often declaim the entire time.

#2

Spengler was the most humorless man I have ever met. He was also the most sensitive to even the smallest criticism. He despised humbug, but he would not allow any inaccuracies or errors to stand uncorrected.

#3

Spengler’s prophecy of the approaching Dostoyevskian Christianity was made in 1922 in the second volume of Decline. But his followers began to leave him around 1926, when he made his peace with contemporary Germany and its businessmen-on-horseback.

#4

The German Revolution is based on simple blackmail. The Nazis found out in 1932 that Oskar von Hindenburg owed 13 million marks, and used this to blackmail him into naming Hitler chancellor.

#5

The German people were responsible for the unutterable misery into which they have fallen. The cabinet system, which they have agreed to, is to blame. They need a master, and by this I do not mean a forelocked gypsy type to lead them.

#6

The Röhm Putsch is a strange case full of unfathomable ramifications. When the truth comes out some day, it will make people shudder. The whole thing is similar to what we are experiencing today in Nazi Germany.

#7

The similarities between Nazi Germany and the town of Münster are striking. The town was ruled by a couple of power-hungry thugs, and they used the masses to fulfill their desires. The town was threatened by neighboring states, and it was all designed to still the hunger for mastery of these two power-hungry thugs.

#8

I have lived in the pit for more than four years now. I have thought hate, lain down with hate in my heart, and dreamed hate. I suffocate in the knowledge that I am the prisoner of a horde of vicious apes, and I rack my brains over the perpetual riddle of how this same people that so jealously guarded its rights can have sunk into this stupor.

#9

I saw Hitler last in Seebruck, gliding by in a car with armor-plated sides, while an armed bodyguard of motorcyclists rode in front as protection. He looked like the Prince of Darkness himself.

#10

I had met Clé three times, and each time he had been extremely unpleasant. He was a man who preached political dogma, and he seemed extremely insecure. He had the look of a man trying to seduce the cook.

#11

I do not believe that Hitler is a Borgia type. I believe that in this case, the offal-compounded, repressed drives of a deeply miscarried human being were combined with a whim of history, which allowed him to play for a time with the levers of its gigantic machinery.

#12

I had a loaded revolver with me when I went to that restaurant in 1932. I could have shot Hitler, but I didn’t. Many attempts have been made on Hitler’s life, but they all fail. It seems that God is asleep.

#13

The Hanfstaengl scandal has spread across Germany. Putzi Hanfstaengl, scion of the well-known Munich publishing family, has fallen out of favor. He boarded a plane and went into a series of loops designed to throw him out of it. He was set down in the forests of Thuringia, and wearing a business suit.

#14

I went to Berlin, which was known for its efficiency. But I did not believe in any of it. I knew that the country was being represented by this hopeless city. I did not believe that people in Berlin worked harder than elsewhere.

#15

Berlin is a city of deception. It is full of functional form without any solidity in either materials or execution. It is also full of elderly gentlemen who have high blood pressure and take pills to deal with it.

#16

The author explained that the script was wonderful, but that such and such scenes might offend the pressure group organized by the German wallpaper manufacturers. The reply that whatever covers every contingency actually covers none was ineffective. The signal had been given for the elderly gentlemen to wake up and attempt to legitimise their salaries.

#17

Berlin is a city of endless turning and noise. If I were to utter the word No!