The article discusses the emergence of Waffen SS, one of the most extremely violent organisations of the 20th century. He analyses in detail the motivations of joining, the points of view and methods of recruitment primarily from regions outside Germany. He shows the less known fact that the SS heavily relied on non-German population.
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Interview with Dr. József Merza
Being a founding member of the Hungarian abolitionist movement, he starts out from the injustice of violence apparent in death penalty and discusses the nature of Christian philosophy that opposes any form of violence.
Interview with János Sebeők the foundert of Voks Humana
It is a dramatic argumentation by the well known environmentalist-writer against the devastation of nature what he terms as the third world war. He considers peace with nature to be the precondition of reconciliation among people.
The national and the universal: is a world culture possible?
The culture of every social group – as opposed to the total culture of mankind"- is particular. The most specific form of this particularity in the modern age is nationalism. Paradoxically, despite of the plurality of the nation-states, they tend to become more and more alike: they operate according to uniform, universal rules. As a protest against this formal control, an organised and an anarchic variant of cultural resistance has emerged.
1993 – a new nationality issue
According to the author's prognosis, by the end of the century, the two ruling formations of our age: the nation and the mass party will decline. World economic relations prove to be stronger than the national/ national economic integration. The left wing has to respond to the changed situation with a new strategy: In contrast to a „market Europe", a cultural identity and political forms that are above the nations have to be established.