The Conservative Revolution

The author, Hermann Rauschning (1887-1982) was a German Conservative Revolutionary who briefly joined the Nazis before breaking with them. In 1934 he renounced Nazi party membership and in 1936 emigrated from Germany (eventually settling in United States) and began openly denouncing Nazism. Rauschning’s writings that were translated into English deal with National Socialism and the Conservative Revolutionaries’ relation to it, and their role/responsibility for Hitler gaining power. By conservative revolution Rauschning meant “the prewar monarchic-Christian revolt against modernity that made a devil’s pact with Hitler during the Weimar period”. Rauschning came “to the bitter conclusion that the Nazi regime represented anything other than the longed-for German revolution” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rauschning