DIE WALLFAHRT NACH PARIS. EINE PATRIOTISCHE PHANTASIE. München: Albert Langen / Georg Müller, 1933. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-9 [10-12] 13-266 [267] [268: blank] [269-272: ads], original beige cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown, top edge stained brown. First edition. An intensely anti-French geopolitical fantasy by an ally of Hitler that Hermand calls the clearest example of the dystopian mood of the time in Germany, "dominant in novels denouncing the disastrous influence of France that threatens to undermine Germany completely ... Wehner's hero is the leader of a Freikorps unit who had fought a losing battle against the "Polacks" in Upper Silesia. After his defeat, he watches in frustration as the 'cowardly, indecisive Reich government' humbles itself before the French, adhering to a dishonorable 'politics of fulfillment' that cumulates in a massive 'pilgrimage' to Paris ... In profound solidarity with the fallen of the First World War, whose blood cries out for vengeance, Wehner yearns for a Reich founded on the spirit of front line camaraderie, the peasant instinct for the land, and a Christian-German religion. And yet, wherever his hero looks, he sees only corruption, rather than a purifying 'resurrection.'" - Hermand, Old Dreams of a New Reich: Volkish Utopias and National Socialism, pp. 104-5. Brandt, Der deutsche Zukunftsroman 1918-1948, p. 369. Bloch (2002) 3332. Not in Nagl. A clean, tight, very good plus copy. (#135523).
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