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Despite the ongoing political criticism of his work, Jünger said he never regretted anything he wrote, nor would he ever take it back. [43] His younger son Alexander, a physician, committed suicide in 1993. [49]
Dec 14, 2022 · It is as if Jünger built himself an ivory tower in which to wait out Germany’s darkest decades. He never left. Nor did he repent. Until his death, Jünger dismissed criticisms of his wartime behavior. As he aged, he appealed to the growing asymmetry between himself and his younger critics: you weren’t there.
Jun 26, 2023 · Ernst Jünger, the stylish supervillain of twentieth-century German literature, fit the profile of a war hero, however dubious the title may seem in retrospect. While serving in a Prussian...
He and his younger brother, the poet Friedrich Georg Jünger, resigned from their regimental association when Jewish old comrades were expelled, and he refused to allow his articles to appear in the official Nazi newspaper, the Volkischer Beobachter.
Feb 20, 2019 · Storm of Steel, Jünger’s account of his experiences, published in 1920, is arguably the finest, most visceral account of battle since the Iliad. Its unpitying, relentless narrative, Nietzschean in tone, has little in common with the nostalgic regret of Britain’s war poets and their Christian notions of sacrifice and pity.
May 8, 2020 · After a time as a well known entomologist (one who studies insects) during the time of the Weimar Republic, he would reenter combat as a German officer and aid in the capture and occupation of Paris on behalf of the Nazis, though due to both his nationalistic past and his controversial essays empowering the worker in a way that could be ...
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Jun 24, 1993 · One would expect this nostalgia for manly wars to appeal mostly to conservative romantics—Winston Churchill shared Jünger's regret about the bomb.
