Having set up the claim with a number of misrepresentations and some fabricated source material, Peter Staudenmaier then concludes: "The affinities with Nazi discourse are unmistakable." This is hardly surprising, and simply a sad indication of the level of Peter Staudenmaier's scholarship.
It is not in the least surprising that Peter Staudenmaier would rely on Treher as a source. Treher's self-published attempt at retroactively psychologizing both Hitler and Steiner in one volume was not taken seriously in 1966 (hence its failure to find a publisher) and is no more convincing today. The supposition that concentration camps are the logical culmination of Rudolf Steiner's life work is one of the vilest perversions of everything that Steiner stood for that I have yet encountered.
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