>“Now these [battles] too are over, and already we see once more in the dim light of the future the tumult of the fresh ones. We--by this I mean those youth of this land who are capable of enthusiasm for an ideal--will not shrink from them. We stand in the memory of the dead who are holy to us, and we believe ourselves entrusted with the true and spiritual welfare of our people. We stand for what will be and for what has been. Though force without and barbarity within conglomerate in sombre clouds, yet so long as the blade of a sword will strike a spark in the night may it be said: Germany lives and Germany shall never go under!”
Why was this book so great and why did Jünger decide to neuter it?
Alexander Bennett
This is so fucking gay
Carter Hall
it's shit
Kevin Bell
samefag
Cameron Anderson
I assumed the Jews had something to do with the edits but it turns out Jünger just chucked out. Sad.
Easton Bennett
*cucked
Dominic Green
I've always heard that later versions of the book were neutered. What version SHOULD I be reading?!
Mason Flores
1929 edition published by Howard Fertig, not Penguin. It will have the extra subtitle: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front
Isaac Young
You're a saint.
Nathan Morales
>tfw we will never have a Junger lead Germany and esoteric nationalism will never be a thing Hitler was a faggot.
Jacob Miller
Early in the book he talks about meeting up with a French girl several times. He doesn't go into details much. Was he fuggin her?
Juan Lewis
Not sure, but something interesting is that around that scene he threw in a bunch of anti-French insults and mocked this one French girl (not sure if it's the one you're thinking of). But then he changed all that to praise in the revised version. Really lame.
Landon Turner
FYI Junger and Schmitt were massive frenchaboos.
Only France reads Junger and keeps him in print.
William Cox
Yeah the early interwar versions of the book are much better I hear
Josiah Hall
Why do people get butthurt that Junger got sick of nationalism/politics after WWII?
He saw that Hitler gambled literally the entire future of Germany and lost. Junger, rightly, didn't want anything to do with that shit anymore.
Hitler was a retard.
Carter Davis
Explain, is the issue that later published versions are altered, or that all published versions differ from the manuscript?
I am unfamiliar with Junger.
David Evans
Junger re-wrote later versions (the ones still currently in print, I guess) to remove the nationalism, which was kind of the source of why everyone loved it when it first came out.
Hitler loved it so much that he allowed Junger to publish On the Marble Cliffs, which, depending on who you ask, is either a critique of Nazism or Communism or both. Either way he had realized soon enough that Nazism was gonna be a big mistake.
Sebastian Baker
You shouldn't butcher art regardless of what happens. If he was really upset about Hitler he could've just added a forward about it, no need to ruin his book.
Nicholas Adams
I've found an edition translated by Fertig, but it was printed in 1996, is this version still unedited?
Andrew Reyes
I also want to know this.
Nicholas Jackson
Yes that's unedited, it's the one I have.
Austin Gonzalez
I read the penguin copy a few months ago. I thought it was boring desu. Mayne it's a crap version though.