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See already Fritsche, Historical Destiny and National
Socialism, 194–97.
175. Heidegger, Hölderlins Hymnen “Germanien” und
“Der Rhein,” 72.
176. Ibid., 72.
177. Ibid.
178. Ibid., 72–73.
179. Ibid., 73.
180. Ibid., 73. Probably, only a recording of Heidegger’s
voice could tell whether this sentence was only a
threat against all those who were not really National
Socialists or whether it also expressed skepticism regarding
the chances to realize National Socialism.
181. Heidegger, Being and Time, 435; Sein und Zeit, 383;
see Fritsche, Historical Destiny and National Socialism,
55–60; see above, n. 119.
182. Heidegger, Being and Time, 436; Sein und Zeit, 384.
183. Heidegger, Hölderlins Hymnen “Germanien” und
“Der Rhein,” 44 and passim.
184. One might object that the phrase, “If we do not compel
powers into our Dasein,” indicates that Dasein
does not act in obedience to a command of something
“higher” than Dasein but spontaneously and
against all existing powers and entities. However, in
the sentence in question not these powers but rather
ordinary (or inauthentic) Dasein or society has to be
forced (to accept within it the powers). Inauthentic
Dasein or society is the sphere of Schein which has to
be destroyed (see above, n. 128).
185. Heidegger, Being and Time, 437; Sein und Zeit,
385 (“sich seinen Helden wählt”). For the “German”
notion of hero (who does not singularize himself but
finds fulfillment in his sacrifice of himself for the
German cause) see Fritsche, Historical Destiny and
National Socialism, 323–27n60.
186. For suggestions what he could have written if he had
wanted to avoid any allusion to World War I see ibid.,
233n7.
187. Heidegger, Hölderlins Hymnen “Germanien” und
“Der Rhein,” 51 and context.
188. Heidegger, “Der deutsche Student als Arbeiter: Rede
bei der feierlichen Immatrikulation 25. November
1933,” 208.
189. Fritsche, Historical Destiny and National Socialism,
122–23.
190. On Scheler’s hymn on World War I, Der Genius des
Krieges (The Genius of War), from 1915, a book of
more than 500 pages, see ibid., 87–92.
191. Heidegger, Being and Time, 160; Sein und Zeit, 123.
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