The Cause of Hitler’s Germany

A truly revolutionary idea… Clear, tight, disciplined, beautifully structured, and brilliantly reasoned. -Ayn Rand

Self-sacrifice, Oriental mysticism, racial truth, the public good, doing one’s duty-these are among the seductive catchphrases that circulated in pre-Nazi Germany. Objectivist author and philosopher Leonard Peikoff was Ayn Rand’s long-time associate. In The Cause of Hitler’s Germany-previously published in The Ominous Parallels-Peikoff demonstrates how unreason and collectivism led the seemingly civilized German society to become a Nazi regime.