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1.   Kurt Tucholsky, "We Nay-Sayers" (1919)

2.   Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, "The Third Empire" (1923)
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, one of the most important authors of the Conservative Revolution, originally wanted to name his best-known work “The Third Party” (“The Third Standpoint” was another....
3.   Rudolf Kayser, "Americanism" (1925)
The catchwords “Americanism” and “Americanization” gave rise to a host of stereotypes, notions, and projections (e.g., the clichéd view of America as a country without “culture” or as a mass society)....
4.   Stefan Zweig, "The Monotonization of the World" (1925)

5.   Friedrich von Gottl-Ottlilienfeld, "Fordism" (1926)
Both “Taylorism,” Frederick W. Taylor’s theory of industrial rationalization and the later system....
6.   Friedrich Sieburg, "Worshipping Elevators" (1926)
While the terms “Americanism“ and “Americanization” were widely associated with the modernization of industry, technology, and the economy in 1920ies Germany, the phenomena of “mass society” and....
7.   Ernst Lorsy, "The Hour of Chewing Gum" (1926)
After the German economy had stabilized, the Chicago chewing gum manufacturer Wrigley tried to establish a presence in the German market. To that end, he spent around 2 million Reichsmark to build....
8.   Hermann Hesse, "The Longing of our Time for a Worldview" (1926)

9.   Kurt Tucholsky, "Berlin and the Provinces" (1928)
Berlin was the capital of both the German Reich and Prussia, the Reich’s largest and most populous state [Land]. In the mid-1920s, Berlin had a population of four million and was by far the....
10.   Joseph Goebbels, "Around the Gedächtniskirche" (1928)
Like Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, who became Gauleiter of Berlin-Brandenburg in November 1926, had a conflicted relationship with the city of Berlin. On the one hand, it was the declared goal....
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