Der Femhoff

[Christopher]

Der Femhof

After some research I found out that the book is about peasant life and was well liked by the Third Reich because of its "Nazi Ideology". The title "The Fehme Farm" Der Femhof, was a farm in the 16th centery or something. The rune on the cover is simular to the swastika and is called the "wolf angel" and protected peasants during the Thirty Years War (1618 - 1648).
The youth movement and, at the end of ww2, the Hitler Youth used the "wolf angel" rune as a symbol.

Interesting stuff....

Thanks for all the help,
Christopher

[ramon]

This is an example of the Völkish Ideology that fed into some of the tenets of the later Nationist/Righist wings on the far right in German politics.

I'd suggust you find a copy of Geoge Mosse's scholarly book, The Crisis of German Ideology, originally published by G. Putnam back in the early 60's.

The NSDAP had to tap into the labor proletariat as Germany was a rising industrial giant with major urban centers while at the same time many on the right romanticised, the nobility of the earth as being the real reflection of the soul of the Völk, a term that had its sometimes mystical meaning for honesty, goodness, hardwork, being in touch with themselves/nature, the spirit of the authentic sense of the tribe and thus, the real people. This was in sharp contrast with the darkness, crime and inauthentic life of the city and factory with its impersonal and ruinous anti Völkish influences.

This can be pretty turgid stuff to read, but back in the day there was alot of this stuff out in the popular literature . Rootedness with the organic and all that tripe would expression in many of the right parties includijng the NSDAP

Again, try Mosse's book. It'll give you some perspective.

Cheers,

Ramon

[Frontalschaden]

Hello

Good book ! I read it years ago !

Just as an info:

Wolfsangel means wolf rod.

It is a wolf trap. The wolfsangel would be placed above chest height with some meat.
If the wolf is jumping above, to get the meat, the lower hook of the wolfsangel will hit him into his throat, while falling down.

If you like such books and the wolfsangel, than you have to read "Der Wehrwolf" from Hermann Löns.
It is a book about some tough guys under Harm Wulf. They are in resistance against marauding and plundering armys in the Thirty Years' War in germany. (1618-1648)
It is written like a primer for guerilla warfare. (Ambush tactics and so on)

Nice book !

Best regards, Fronti

[Michael Fay]

The Crisis of German Ideology

This is an example of the Völkish Ideology that fed into some of the tenets of the later Nationist/Righist wings on the far right in German politics.

I'd suggust you find a copy of Geoge Mosse's scholarly book, The Crisis of German Ideology, originally published by G. Putnam back in the early 60's.

The NSDAP had to tap into the labor proletariat as Germany was a rising industrial giant with major urban centers while at the same time many on the right romanticised, the nobility of the earth as being the real reflection of the soul of the Völk, a term that had its sometimes mystical meaning for honesty, goodness, hardwork, being in touch with themselves/nature, the spirit of the authentic sense of the tribe and thus, the real people. This was in sharp contrast with the darkness, crime and inauthentic life of the city and factory with its impersonal and ruinous anti Völkish influences.

This can be pretty turgid stuff to read, but back in the day there was alot of this stuff out in the popular literature . Rootedness with the organic and all that tripe would expression in many of the right parties includijng the NSDAP

Again, try Mosse's book. It'll give you some perspective.

Cheers,

Ramon

Ramon,
George Mosse's book you cited is a classic. Until very recently, most of academia did not want to go where he delved into TR cultural and sociological underpinnings. When you read his book, every page will have your head spinning with the enormous amount of movements, political to religious and occult that proliferated in pre-TR era.
I was at a history seminar last month where academic publishers were showing off their books, and there is now an academic autobiography out on George Mosse.
I have a dvd with Mosse talking where he explains that even as a young German Jew in Germany, he could not help but raise the fuhrer salute and "sieg heil" with everyone else when Hitler was near. Dr. Mosse explained it was as if he could not help himself.
In short Dr. Mosse really knew his subject well as the ultimate outsider that was there.

[Michael Fay]

Hello

Good book ! I read it years ago !

Just as an info:

Wolfsangel means wolf rod.

It is a wolf trap. The wolfsangel would be placed above chest height with some meat.
If the wolf is jumping above, to get the meat, the lower hook of the wolfsangel will hit him into his throat, while falling down.

If you like such books and the wolfsangel, than you have to read "Der Wehrwolf" from Hermann Löns.
It is a book about some tough guys under Harm Wulf. They are in resistance against marauding and plundering armys in the Thirty Years' War in germany. (1618-1648)
It is written like a primer for guerilla warfare. (Ambush tactics and so on)

Nice book !

Best regards, Fronti

while I have shown this photo and described these books many times on WAF, it never gets old....at least for me.

Also those Wolfsangels/Wolf's Cross/Wolf's Angels were used as talismanic protection against evil doers like Werewolves...who were also at various times thought to be supernatural shapeshifters to actually being irregular psychopathic berserker warriors(whose fighting fury was valuable enough to allow them to remain in Viking/Germanic society) to actual military battalions: both who were berzerker believers in Wotan and his divine fury. to a whole variety of disspossessed peoples who were legally termed outlaws =Anglo Saxon "Utlaghs" commonly called "Wolfs heads" and actual criminal organizations that wore a wolf belt or pelt as a uniform.
These symbols would be carved on a stone in front of a town to denote they will execute any ill-doers like guerilla terrorist criminal groups they can lay thier hands on.