“What was new about Hitler and Stalin was what Friedrich Meinecke, in an attempt shortly after World War II to express his horror at Hitler’s moral nihilism, called a ‘Machiavellianism of the masses.”

Source: The Passing of an Illusion, The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century (1999), p.191

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