Myth of the 20th Century

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Myth of the 20th Century

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The Second Book of the Third Reich

Alfred Rosenberg's Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts, published in 1930, was the second-bestselling book in Nazi Germany after Mein Kampf. It attempts a grand racial-spiritual history of European civilization, tracing what Rosenberg considered the creative force of the "Nordic" race through ancient India, Greece, Rome, medieval Europe, and into the modern era. The book is long, uneven, and often bizarre in its leaps of logic.

What It Contains

Rosenberg's thesis is that civilizations rise and fall with the racial purity of their founding stock. He reads the entirety of Western art, religion, philosophy, and politics through this lens. The book covers everything from the Vedas to Martin Luther to Freemasonry, each chapter building toward a vision of a new Germanic faith to replace Christianity. Hitler himself reportedly found the book tedious, but it became required reading in party circles and formed the intellectual basis for much of Nazi cultural and racial policy.

Why We Carry It

This is a primary source document. You cannot understand the ideological structure of National Socialism without reading the books its adherents actually read. This edition provides the unabridged English translation for researchers, historians, and serious readers who need to engage with the original text rather than secondhand summaries.