Language:
English
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Psychohistory
Angaben zur Quelle:
28,4 (2001) 469-479
Keywords:
Hitler, Adolf,
;
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
National socialism
;
Mischlinge (Nuremberg Laws of 1935)
Abstract:
Examining one of the earlier Nazi racial prohibitions, that Jews may not employ German women under the age of 45 as maids, infers that Hitler was obsessed with the rumor of his father's and his own Jewish origin. Stories of the seduction of his grandmother by a Jewish employer (which led to the birth of his father) and the seduction of his mother by his father (they later married), as well as his own early sexual obsessions, made Hitler believe in the sexual depravity of Jews and people of Jewish descent, and drove him to plan the racial purification of Germany. The Nazi euthanasia program was in fact aimed at elimination of all people of mixed parentage. Many other leading Nazis (e.g. Streicher, Heydrich, Rosenberg) had similar fears concerning their alleged Jewish origins and negative inherited Jewish traits. By killing Jews, the Nazis were trying to obliterate the people who reminded them of what they hated in themselves.
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