From the enlightenment to National Socialism
Journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University History
Year: 2017

The paper criticizes a commonly held misconception of Prussia's especially villainous role in the development and dissemination of nationalism -one of the most malign and destructive doctrines in modern history. With Prussia no longer in existence, having been annihilated by the Allies in 1947, this misconception has spread even more widely. Relying on analysis of German philosophical systems and literary trends of the 18 th and 19 th centuries, as well as on the historical concepts of nationali