A few nice animal abuse images I found:
Ernst Jünger in between David Lloyd George and Adolf Hitler (4th September 1936, Berghof near Berchtesgarden)
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Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany, World War 2 in colour Part 2 from: 'Hitler in Colour' - Narrated by Brian Cox, Producer David Batty, TWI /Granada Television 2004 @youtube.com
David Lloyd George In den 1930er-Jahren gehörte er zu den Vertretern der Appeasement-Politik und versuchte im Auftrag der britischen Regierung zwischen England und Hitler-Deutschland zu vermitteln. So traf Lloyd George im September 1936 Adolf Hitler im Berghof in Berchtesgaden, um von Hitler über dessen außenpolitische Pläne Auskunft zu erhalten. Hitler überreichte Lloyd George ein signiertes Portrait und drückte seine Freude darüber aus "den Mann getroffen zu haben, der den Krieg gewonnen hatte". Lloyd George war von dieser Geste bewegt und antwortete, dass er sehr geehrt sei, solch ein Geschenk aus den Händen des "greatest living German". zu erhalten. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach England schrieb er am 17. September einen Artikel für den Daily Express, in dem er Hitler in den höchsten Tönen lobte und vermerkte: "The Germans have definitely made up their minds never to quarrel with us again".
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According to fascist scribe Ernst Jünger, father figure and economic patron of the New
Right, “The ‘elemental,’ toward which we strive, is for the first time perceptible in the jaws of war. Only when the play of perpetual emptiness of normal life is swept away will what is natural and elemental within us — a genuinely primitive dimension that is otherwise hidden — erupt with blood and seed.” {16} Similarly, for Carl Schmitt, “The hallmark of authentic politics is the moment when the enemy emerges in concrete clarity as the enemy.”{17} According to the conservative revolutionary worldview, the nihilism and decadence of contemporary Europe are a direct result of the triumph of liberalism, whose political values — discussion, compromise, egalitarianism — are in essence effeminate. Only a renewed social Darwinist emphasis on virility and risk, guaranteed by a strong and well-armed state, might redeem Germany and Europe from a fate of liberal vacillation and indecision.
The German New Right is fond of characterizing itself as the “democratic right.” By strategically distancing themselves from the far right (e.g., neo-Nazis), its members are cleverly able to present themselves as intellectual and political moderates, thereby stealthily interjecting their revisionist views into cultural mainstream."
{16}. Ernst Jünger, “Der Kampf um das Reich,” cited in Pflüger, Deutschland driftet, 35–36.
{17}. Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, trans. G. Schwab (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 67; see also the German edition, Der Begriff des Politischen (Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 1963), 67: “Die Höhepunkte der grossen Politik sind zugleich die Augenblicke, in denen der Feind in konkreter Deutlichkeit als Feind erblickt wird.” The English translation omits the allusion Nietzsche’s concept of “great politics.”
SOURCE: 'Incertitudes Allemandes: Reflections on the German New Right' pp 129 - 150 with notes excerpted from: 'THE SEDUCTION OF UNREASON. THE INTELLECTUAL ROMANCE WITH FASCISM - FROM NIETZSCHE TO POSTMODERNISM.' written by Richard Wolin. © 2004 Princeton University Press.
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Nietzsche and the Fascist Dimension: The Case of Ernst Jünger, David Ohana. pages 263 -290
in: Nietzsche, godfather of fascism? on the uses and abuses of a philosophy. edited by Jacob Golomb and Robert S. Wistrich.
A Man for All Seasons
Ernst Jünger, born in Heidelberg in 1895, was the eldest of four sons in a typical German bourgeois family. In his early years, his family moved to Hanover, following the decision of his father, the owner of a chemical
factory, who was concerned for his children’s economic welfare. However, dissatisfaction with a comfortable bourgeois existence caused the seventeen-year-old Jünger to seek out a life of danger and adventure. He crossed the French frontier at Metz and burnt all the money in his possession
in order to sever his connection to the past. He then made his way to Africa where, like Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement, he discovered what he called “the promise of happiness.”
After he had stayed a few weeks at Sidi-Bal-Abbas in North Africa, his father brought him home, but he did not remain there for long. Later, Jünger described the reasons for his frequent flights from home: “We
grew up in the atmosphere of a materialistic epoch, and we all consequently had a taste for something out of the ordinary, for situations of great danger.”
In 1914, before the outbreak of war, he volunteered for the 73rd Hanover Fusilier Regiment, in which he served for four years. He began as a private, and a year later was appointed a junior officer. He did not volunteer for ideological or nationalistic reasons, but in the hope of finding in the army what he had sought in Africa: a life of existential significance, of danger, of spontaneity and vitality. He finally found his Africa in the fields of Flanders. The primitivism he longed for changed in content but not in essence, and his myth of Africa was now replaced by the myth of the war. In those years in which he dwelt in the trenches of northern France, Ju¨nger was in charge of platoons of commandos and was wounded seven times. Like Rommel, he received the highest decoration for valor in the German army. After the war, he returned to his defeated country, and began to take his first steps in civilian life. His sojourn in the trenches had given birth to an exhaustive battle diary documenting his experience in the war. The diary, which appeared in 1920 under the title Stahlgewittern (The Storm of Steel), won its author immediate fame and was an instant best-seller. Ju¨nger became the spokesman of the generation of the trenches that had sacrificed all without receiving anything in return.
From 1927 onward, Jünger lived in Berlin and imbibed the atmosphere of intrigue and machinations, clubs that spawned utopias, subversive agitation in beer cellars, violence in the streets, and corruption in high places. Ju¨nger declared in the spirit of that time (as Thomas Mann had done a dozen years previously) that all democratic regimes were in contradiction to the essentally tragic nature of the human destiny. His interest in botany and zoology was not scientific but metaphorical: he wished to study the sphere of animals and vegetation as a language of symbols for an understanding of the metaphysical essence of the world. In the 1930s, he traveled a great deal in Brazil, Morocco, Scandinavia, and France, and in his travel notes there was still a sense of nostalgia for the primitive and a feeling of hostility to the compromises and adjustments of the world in which he lived. In 1932, Jünger published Der Arbeiter (The Worker), a technological utopia of the modern world that was the high point of his intellectual achievement. Jünger took the “nihilistic-totalitarian syndrome” to its ultimate conclusions. He used the myth of the “masculine community” of the trenches and the public memory of the first mechanized war in order to construct a utopia in which technology directed, guided, and molded man and his role in the new hierarchical society. Indeed, the Jüngerian technological utopia would be prophetic of a new political form of totalitarian nihilism.
For Ju¨nger, the Second World War was a completely different experience from the first one. If the First World War was a hell in the trenches, the second was for Jünger a pleasurable experience in the streets of Paris. As an officer of the German occupation, he spent his time in the French capital in the company of “collaborationist” authors and cultural critics, visiting artists like Picasso and Braque and in frequenting literary clubs and cafés on the boulevards. All this is described in his wartime notes, the first part of which was published in 1942 under the title Gärten und Strassen (Gardens and Streets).25 Toward the end of the war (1943), his book Der Friede (The Peace) appeared and was popular among the young German soldiers on the western front. When the war ended, his books were banned in the British zone of occupation in Germany, but at the same time were freely available in London. In November 1944, when he lost his eighteen-year-old son Ernestal on the Italian front, he wrote that “the only true community of the war” was the community of the bereaved. His stay in Paris was interrupted by a sixweek journey to the Caucasian front, but the quiet places he visited there in no way recalled his experiences in Flanders. These landscapes were later described in his utopia Heliopolis (1949), which developed the theme of Auf den Marmorklippen in which the representatives of anarchy and the representatives of nihilism confront each other in the person of the hero, Lucio de Gir.26 After his commander General Heinrich von Stülpnagel was executed, Ju¨nger was sent back to Germany, and in October 1944 he was discharged from the army. His diary (1949), which covers the period of the Second World War in detail, ends with the entry of American tanks into a village near Hanover in April 1945. After the war, there was talk of him being placed on trial in Nuremberg. Seeking to preserve his honor, Jünger refused to be tried by the de-Nazification court, although clearance would have enabled him to publish his books freely. However, Ju¨nger lived on to become the most important cultural figure in Germany after Heidegger. His long life and his many books, which appeared in successive editions, caused the character of his youthful writings to be forgotten. In 1982, he received a dramatic rehabilitation when he was awarded the prestigious Goethe prize in a splendid ceremony in Frankfurt. Three years later, the chancellor Helmut Kohl made a pilgrimage to the village of Wilflingen, where Jünger lived, to congratulate him on his ninetieth birthday. He died in 1998, at the age of a hundred and three.
Queen of bears
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This bear looks as if he/she's waving to the crowd below. Reminds me of the way the Dutch queen waves to the public :).
Malayan sun bears (aka honey bears) at Burgers Zoo, Arnhem, the Netherlands.
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Tonya, the toddler
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Tonya is about a year old in this picture. She's on her way to see Faya, her newborn halfsister.
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