Summary of Friedrich Reck's Diary of a Man in Despair

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#1 Spengler was a man of great human greatness and small and large frailties. He was the kind of man who liked to eat alone, and he would often declaim the entire time.

#2 Spengler was the most humorless man I have ever met. He was also the most sensitive to even the smallest criticism. He despised humbug, but he would not allow any inaccuracies or errors to stand uncorrected.

#3 Spengler’s prophecy of the approaching Dostoyevskian Christianity was made in 1922 in the second volume of Decline. But his followers began to leave him around 1926, when he made his peace with contemporary Germany and its businessmen-on-horseback.

#4 The German Revolution is based on simple blackmail. The Nazis found out in 1932 that Oskar von Hindenburg owed 13 million marks, and used this to blackmail him into naming Hitler chancellor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822547476

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#1

Spengler was a man of great human greatness and small and large frailties. He was the kind of man who liked to eat alone, and he would often declaim the entire time.

#2

Spengler was the most humorless man I have ever met. He was also the most sensitive to even the smallest criticism. He despised humbug, but he would not allow any inaccuracies or errors to stand uncorrected.

#3

Spengler’s prophecy of the approaching Dostoyevskian Christianity was made in 1922 in the second volume of Decline. But his followers began to leave him around 1926, when he made his peace with contemporary Germany and its businessmen-on-horseback.

#4

The German Revolution is based on simple blackmail. The Nazis found out in 1932 that Oskar von Hindenburg owed 13 million marks, and used this to blackmail him into naming Hitler chancellor.

#5

The German people were responsible for the unutterable misery into which they have fallen. The cabinet system, which they have agreed to, is to blame. They need a master, and by this I do not mean a forelocked gypsy type to lead them.

#6

The Röhm Putsch is a strange case full of unfathomable ramifications. When the truth comes out some day, it will make people shudder. The whole thing is similar to what we are experiencing today in Nazi Germany.

#7

The similarities between Nazi Germany and the town of Münster are striking. The town was ruled by a couple of power-hungry thugs, and they used the masses to fulfill their desires. The town was threatened by neighboring states, and it was all designed to still the hunger for mastery of these two power-hungry thugs.

#8

I have lived in the pit