“Soldat Und Tod” by Hans Larwin[/caption]"Did he really jump into a whirlwind of raw and senseless violence because of blind obedience, victims of the irresistible fury of mass psychosis? Or did he really serve in a great army that had also responded to a deep question, an army with a sense of historical greatness?"
Ernst Junger “Fire and Blood”
***As in Storm of Steel, in the book Feuer und Blut (1925, "Fire and Blood"), Jünger glorified war as an internal event. According to Jünger, war elevates the soldier's life, isolated from normal humanity, into a mystical experience. The extremities of modern military techniques tested the capacity of the human senses. He criticized the fragile and unstable democracy of the Weimar Republic, stating that he "hated democracy like the plague." (Metapedia)
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