The new interpretation that came with the radicalized German youth movement of 1968 argued that the Hitler era was not a sharp break with German history, but rather continuous with it. The only direction for German culture that did not lead to the spiritual abyss of Nazism – according to this radical new interpretation – was Marxism.
这种随着1968年的德国激进青年运动而来的新解释认为，希特勒时代不是和德国历史严重脱离的，而是后者的延续。根据这一激进的新的解释，德国文化中只有马克思主义并没有导致纳粹主义的精神深渊。当然这里所指的马克思主义不是东德的僵化马克思主义，而是新的“及其重要的”被赫伯特·马尔库塞这些人所信仰的马克思主义。