Alfred Rosenberg's 1930 Nazi ideological treatise — the second most important text of Nazi ideology, arguing for a racial-spiritual worldview centered on Nordic blood and spirit as the source of all civilization.
Nazi racial mythology: The book's structure: (1) A racial theory of history — all genuine civilization is the creation of the Nordic Aryan race. (2) A critique of Christianity as a Semitic corruption of the Nordic spirit. (3) A positive vision of a neo-pagan Nordic spirituality rooted in race and blood. Rosenberg's prose was notoriously dense and the book sold largely because of its Nazi imprimatur rather than its readability — even Nazi ideologists found it difficult. Its significance is as the systematic elaboration of Nazi racial mysticism beyond Mein Kampf's cruder formulations.
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