Hanns Johst
(1890-1978)
German general
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Hanns Johst (8 July 1890 – 23 November 1978) was a German poet and playwright, directly aligned with National Socialist philosophy, as a member of the officially approved writers’ organisations in the Third Reich. The statement “When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun”, variously misattributed to Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring, was in fact a corrupted version of a line in his play Schlageter.
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8 July 1890 Seerhausen bei Riesa, Saxony
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| Died |
23 November 1978 (aged 88) Ruhpolding, Bavaria, West Germany
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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