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Intro -- Contents -- Editors' Introductions -- I. Eric Voegelin's "Hitler and the Germans" Lectures in the Context of the Germans' Treatment of Their Nazi Past -- II. The Philosophical Context of the "Hitler and the Germans" Lectures -- Editors' Note -- contents -- Part I Descent into the Abyss -- 1. Central Experiential Problem: Hitler's Rise to Power -- 2. The Experiential Occasion of the Lectures: Schramm's "Anatomy of a Dictator" -- 3. The Stupidity of a Whole People: The "Buttermelcher Syndrome" -- 4. Present-day German Laxity toward Former Nazis -- 5. The Cliché of the "Unmastered Past" versus the "Presence under God" -- 6. The Cliché of "Collective Guilt" and the Representation of a Society -- 7. Clichés of "State" and "Democracy" -- 8. Philosophical and Biblical Understanding of Humanity and of Radical Stupidity -- 9. Karl Kraus's Dritte Walpurgisnacht on Lies and Propaganda -- 10. Robert Musil on Simple and Intelligent Stupidity -- 11. Carl Amery on Bourgeois "Propriety" as Secondary Virtue Eclipsing Primary Virtues -- 12. Criminal Stupidity and Loss of Experience of Reality in a Disordered Society -- 13. Schramm's Conceptual and Stylistic Incomprehension of Hitler -- 14. Hitler's "Aura" -- 15. Hitler and Christianity -- 16. Hitler's Views on Religion -- 17. Hitler and Women -- 18. Hitler and His Entourage -- 19. Hitler and "The Art of Reading" -- 20. Hitler's Social Darwinism -- 21. Conclusion: Schramm's Spiritual Illiteracy Contrasted with Alan Bullock's Diagnosis of Hitler -- 22. Lack of a Theoretical Articulation of "Church" -- 23. Intellectual and Spiritual Decline in the German Churches -- 24. Evangelical Church's Participation in Nationalistic- Völkisch Ideology -- 25. Theological Opinions Regarding Race Laws -- 26. Anti-Semitic Tendencies in Land Bishop Wurm and Pastor Niemöller.