Hanns Johst
Hanns Johst (8 July 1890 – 23 November 1978) was a German poet and playwright, directly aligned with
Nazi 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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