Language:
German
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Der Nationalsozialismus als politische Religion
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1997) 53-73
Keywords:
Catholic Church Relations
;
Judaism
;
Christianity and antisemitism History
;
Antisemitism History 1933-1945
;
National socialism
;
Religion and politics History 1933-1945
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses a link between the Christian deicide accusation against the Jews and the Holocaust, contending that National Socialism, in the form of a racist salvation movement, inherited the theories and practices of Catholic antisemitism. It radicalized those theories and practices and executed both to a degree unimaginable up to that time. Presents a survey of the history of Christianity and its attitude towards the Jews, noting that the deicide accusation has persisted throughout the centuries up to the present. In Nazi Germany, the cross was replaced by the swastika; i.e. Nazism became the national religion.
Note:
Appeared previously in "Das Jüdische Echo" 44 (1995) 261-271.
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