Hanns Johst

"Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning!"

"The disdain for culture expressed by Johst and Fanon is not identical, however. Both despise the deceit of culture, but for opposite reasons. For Johst, culture is in itself a fraud, the cheap talk of weaklings; for Fanon, culture deceives by reneging on its promises. Johst and the Nazis hated culture itself; Fanon hated its hypocrisy, a very different notion."

"Nein, zehn Schritt vom Leibe mit dem ganzen Weltanschauungssalat... Hier wird scharf geschossen! Wenn ich Kultur höre... entsichere ich meinen Browning!"