Poets and Barbarians

This chapter illustrates the professional competence of a programmatic purge that reflects the anti-Semitism of Adolf Bartels, whose discontent with the modern era is reciprocated. There are sensational developments in every economic sector of the Nazi movement. But the rule of law by decree tolerates other arbitrary instances of metaphor coalescing with hard facts. In literature, too, there have been reported cases of unscrupulous competition ending in bloodshed. Authors who use their elbows, sometimes quite literally, to thrust aside Jews have defined themselves as the “Kampfbund” (Fighting Unit). The new order operates as violently as the seismic force in Walpurgis Night.