Издание включает избранные произведения классика немецкой геополитической мысли Карла Хаусхофера (1869-1946), о научной деятельности которого в нашей стране практически неизвестно, а оценки его личности и его научного наследия неоднозначны. Впервые публикуемые на русском языке труды Хаусхофера позволяют читателю непредвзято, с позиций историзма оценить взгляды и концепции ученого, судьба которого в условиях нацистского режима в Германии оказалась глубоко трагичной.

В книге доктора исторических наук А. С. Бланка освещается история зарождения и развития фашизма в Германии. Автор вскрывает истоки и социальные корни фашизма, сущность его человеконенавистнической идеологии, причины ее распространения и влияния на массы. В книге разоблачаются многочисленные вымыслы и легенды буржуазной историографии о раннем фашизме в Германии, попытки ее реабилитации реакционными историками. Приводя факты усиливающейся активности неофашизма в ФРГ и ряде других западноевропейских стран, автор подчеркивает черты его зловещего сходства с ранним фашизмом.

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NATIONAL SOCIALISM as an intellectual movement emanated in the years 1926–28 from the brains of a few—chiefly north—German thinkers. As a political force it sprang from the mass-membership of the great Fatherland Party and the Pan-German Association. In a word—it was born of the annexationist militarism of 1917. In 1919 it became an independent political movement. Out of its raw material the Reichswehr in Munich forged a political weapon. This weapon was given shape in 1921 by Captain Ernst Röhm, and by a man of outstanding intellect but unstable character—Adolf Hitler. The movement derived its title from Hitler’s native Austria. It was adopted against the wishes of the present leaders and does not represent their political ideas. Those members of the National Socialist Workers Party who subsequently sought to give a literal interpretation to its title found themselves compelled by force of logic to leave its ranks.

Nazism is usually depicted as the outcome of political blunders and unique economic factors: we are told that it could not be prevented, and that it will never be repeated. In this explosive book, Guido Giacomo Preparata shows that the truth is very different: using meticulous economic analysis, he demonstrates that Hitler's extraordinary rise to power was in fact facilitated -- and eventually financed -- by the British and American political classes during the decade following World War I. Through a close analysis of events in the Third Reich, Preparata unveils a startling history of Anglo-American geopolitical interests in the early twentieth century. He explains that Britain, still clinging to its empire, was terrified of an alliance forming between Germany and Russia. He shows how the UK, through the Bank of England, came to exercise control over Weimar Germany and how Anglo-American financial support for Hitler enabled the Nazis to seize power. This controversial study shows that Nazism was not regarded as an aberration: for the British and American establishment of the time, it was regarded as a convenient way of destabilising Europe and driving Germany into conflict with Stalinist Russia, thus preventing the formation of any rival continental power block. Guido Giacomo Preparata lays bare the economic forces at play in the Third Reich, and identifies the key players in the British and American establishment who aided Hitler's meteoric rise.