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Just look what I found on a relatively neutral Russian site: materials written in Germany since 1934 to 1943! Books on raciology, racial hygiene, psychology of Wermacht, race and politics.

Does anybody know anything like that in English?

Here is one article for you. (Sorry, could be errors, it's cut and paste Babel Fish Translator)

PSYCHOLOGY OF WEHRMACHT And PSYCHOLOGY OF THE GERMAN HIGHER SCHOOL

Eric Rudolf Yensh (speech at the holiday in the honor of the discovery the new center of psychology of Wehrmacht on 12 March 1936.)

The chairman of our society professor Felix Kruger expressed official wishes on behalf of our science this morning. But we, psychologists of higher school, would want to again emphasize our close connection with psychology of Wehrmacht. We form one combat association in the fight for the great matter, for one of the most important directions of national building. The insidious enemies, whom be sufficient, can interpret our oath in the faithfulness as appreciation for the service, shown of psychology of higher school in its constrained position by psychology of Wehrmacht with its powerful organization, whereas our theoretical science is less known to community. But then it would be possible to speak simply about the business collaboration. However, us are united not personal and not only professional interests, but great mission. In our critical time everything which carries out the specific mission, is asserted with difficulty, overcoming the strong resistance of that, to what it proceeds with change. So is matter also concerning German psychology. This morning already they spoke about V.Vundte. Its son frequently told me about the difficulties, with which it was necessary to fight for his father. And they looked distrustful at him as on the dubious adventurer. And fight for our great matter is not yet finished. It can be, you themselves completely do not realize, what enormous service you showed, after building this unique center, psychology and to German science and to culture generally.

Monstrous propaganda today in the different countries is conducted against them. In this case psychology is especially frequently used for the disparagement of German science and culture precisely. They assert, as if this science, although it German origin, is destroyed by the government of new state, which gives the preference of rasologii to the reaction directions of clean philosophy. Today in our hands there is convincing proof for the refutation of similar assertions. But us unites, first of all, general work. The high level of our psychology of Wehrmacht they will reach because of the fact that it is far shrewd from the old psychotechnics and considers people as living whole. She studies the laws of life and reports its conclusions to military instances. Our great motion strives for that so that all spheres of existence would be based on the natural laws of life. The Fuehrer returned state to its natural source - people. We - the pioneers of the culture of living, to the proceeding with change culture of the fact that are below or allegedly above lives. The culture of the past was bifurcated between the dead things and the material values, from one side, and the peace of distant from the reality ideas, "clean" philosophy. In the creation of new culture we go hand to hand, you are more from the side of practice, we - are more from the side of theory. But our connection not only worker, but also ethical. We work in that region, where the intellect frequently darkens all other sincere cily, now and then with the damage for the personality. We work in the period, when new criteria appear, whereas in the general public even in the course old; therefore it frequently cannot distinguish darnels of the grains. Therefore we must be on the alert so that any adventurers would not use moment for their selfish purposes, and not in the interests of science and Germany generally. Therefore we are happy, that we deal concerning the psychologists of Wehrmacht, decency and soldier honesty of whom do not be subject to doubt, people, which do not possess these qualities, they are not retained in your numbers. Your first requirement for military kharakterologam: they themselves must have a nature. The responsibility of your profession does not allow game with the concepts, not based on the facts. The soldier manner of behavior, required for you, and now also for us, is assumed knightly respect for to itself and its enemies. We were always ready to mutual understanding with them, but only on the condition that that they recognize us equal and not they will prevent us from accomplishing our task.

Attacks on us proceed, first of all, from the sphere of clean philosophy, from the idealists and the romantics. We do not want to interfere with them, but let and they us do not interfere with. In the classical German idealism should be distinguished two sides. This was, in the first place, great German movement for elevation and improvement of entire living. We value its heritage, but we rest on the experience and the real facts. On the basis of psychological anthropology already today is developed the idealism of life and reality instead of the idealism of clean ideas and extra-real spheres as in the so-called classical epoch of German philosophy. However, to us they frequently object, that the elevation of humanity - not sole and by no means main side of idealism. If in this case main role reason played, then today many clean philosophers search for the value of idealism in that region, which far defends from the reasonable knowledge. So Nikolai Hartman calls the doubtful dialectic method of Hegel the "method of examination, by sequential development newer and newer sides of object", i.e., the discussion deals not about the reasonable understanding, but with the method of examination. It simultaneously openly acknowledges that Hegel "categorically rejected understanding of dependences". But only reason can understand the dependence of phenomena on each other, if we his purpose - understand these phenomena. But idealists have long ago recognized that their relation to the peace another, than in those, who it gets to know reality only by reason, and they emphasized this difference. Romanticism, the child of the same epoch, the brother of idealism with the same family features, was to an even greater degree oriented to the contemplation... The discussion dealt not with the activity of reason, not about the analysis and not about the knowledge of the laws of nature, but about the contemporization anything completely unique from past and religious fanatism to this unique.

A.Boymler very successfully named this in its work about Gerrese the "cult of ancestors". In Gerresa, chief representative of Catholic romanticism, in this it is possible to see the repercussions of cult any holy reasonable analysis in this case it appears by profanation or sacrilege. "psychological orientation - main error of the present. Its prerequisite - idea about the urgency of entire human, a feeling of hard times... Past always another, and for psychology entire one and the same ". A. boymler said this from the point of view of the romantic philosophy of history in the spirit Of gerresa, for which there is no another task, besides the cult of ancestors. This view on the peace is completely justified for the purely historical knowledge, and its psychology does not not a bit dispute, on the contrary, it considers it its very fruitful for the specific purposes. It with the piety relates to the history and to the past. But this on no account the all-encompassing view on the peace, not only, and for the practical activity and not very important. Yes, for psychology entire one and the same, everything is repeated, but in this it does not be in error, but is opened the truth, which corresponds to reality. Yes, in each epoch there is something unique, unique. But how much not changed the content of epochs in the details, act the same general laws of life, special in the past, present and future of the specific people. Without recognizing this, it cannot be spoken about the "race" and the "racial soul". Yes, there is a "feeling of hard times", and "idea about the urgency" of the past, i.e., in our opinion, between the people of the past and present, with entire difference in the historical content, there is general, in the Germans, as in Englishmen or Frenchmen, passing through all epochs generality of the type and blood. But we must to our enemies of the circle of the romantic philosophy of history principally even the more crucial point: the science about the man and his soul is very little occupied by the past, it is occupied first of all by present and future. Therefore we must consider "identical", and the representatives of purely historical thinking cannot forbid to us this.

The one who wants to practically improve the life of people, must know the general and special laws of life, i.e., that which in the flow of events remains "one and the same" and always returns. Not only respectful contemplation, but also guiding threads of these laws are necessary to each, who wants to act and to construct future. The clarity of thinking is characteristic for the Germans. This quality of reason, and they should use today precisely during the study of human psyche. Yes, we must with respect relate for ancestors and for the past, but this is our only debt. At least we to the same degree are obligated to live in the present, in the reality and on the basis of its clear, reasonable, completely not romantic understanding to care about the future.

"Zeitschrift fur Psychologie", volume 138, release 4-6, August 1936.


Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Erich Fromm

 
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