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The Myth of the Twentieth Century (German: Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts) is a 1930 book by Alfred Rosenberg, one of the principal ideologues of the Nazi Party and editor of the Nazi paper Völkischer Beobachter. The titular "myth" (in the special Sorelian sense) is "the myth of blood, which under the sign of the swastika unchains the racial world-revolution. It is the awakening of the race soul, which after long sleep victoriously ends the race chaos."[1]The book has been described as "one of the two great unread bestsellers of the Third Reich" (the other being Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf).[2] Hitler condemned the book in terms of "mysticism" and "nonsense", [3] and Goebbels put it down as an "ideological belch".[4] (Hitler objected to Rosenberg’s paganism.[5]) – Wikipedia
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