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Allach: Beauty in a dark regime

Adolf Hitler and the “Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei” (NSDAP – Nazi Party) came to power using a number of political tactics which reshaped German economics, national pride, centuries-old racism and ethnic dominance, all the while heightening the people’s yearning for an idyllic way of life which had really never existed. This concept of a utopian agricultural “Aryan” society with proud peasant workers subject to a chosen elite was one of the basic teachings of the “Schutzstaffel”, Hitler’s “Black Knights”, headed by Reichsfuhrer, Heinrich Himmler.

In Himmler’s world of ultimate power, subordinate only to Hitler himself, he would often attempt to bring his fantasies of the perfect Germanic world to life. This was done

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