Les nazis et la République allemande Antipolitique et destruction de la cité (1919-1933/4)

The “Weimar Republic” was a well-known object of detestation among the Nazis. They attacked this regime long after it had disappeared in 1933, because it represented in their eyes all the flaws and vices of political modernity. Parlamentarianism, democracy, human rights, liberalism, universalism… all this came for the Nazis from abroad. “Weimar” was always associated to “Versailles” and “Geneva” (League of Nations) or to Paris, the capital of the French Revolution or of the “West” in general. Against the “polis” of the Republic, the Nazis promoted and realized a project that was essentially anti-political: against politics, biology.