Language:
English
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
The Rise of the Nazi Regime; Historical Reassessments
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1986) 25-34
Keywords:
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
The centrality of antisemitism to Nazi ideology is a serious obstacle in attempts to explain Nazism as a form of fascism or totalitarianism. Criticizes attempts to minimize antisemitism or describe it as a form of anti-Bolshevism or as a necessary consequence of fascism. The Marxist thesis describes Nazi racism and the Holocaust as the result of a policy of exploitation of cheap labor by capital, or as diversion of the masses from the problems of capitalism. In fact, the Final Solution was uneconomic and antisemitism unpopular. The totalitarian interpretation argues that totalitarian systems crush individuals and groups in order to terrorize the population, and the choice of the Jews as the victim was arbitrary.
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