Language:
German
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
7 (1998) 151-174
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
In 1926 the Magdeburg Jewish businessman Rudolf Haas was accused of having hired Hermann Helling, the murderer of one of his former employees, because Helling was about to give evidence to the authorities on supposed financial irregularities in the Haas concern. The story was a fabrication planted in the murderer's mind by the police, and backed by the examining judge. After Haas had spent two months in prison, Helling confessed that he committed the crime on his own initiative. Just as the accusation implied a Jewish conspiracy, Jews and liberals saw its treatment by the police and judiciary as a right-wing antisemitic one. Argues that those involved acted from individual motives, of which antisemitism was only one; ambition and the lust for sensation probably played a greater part.
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