Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
34 (1989) 291-354
Keywords:
Lösener, Bernhard
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Stuckart, Wilhelm,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Mischlinge (Nuremberg Laws of 1935)
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National socialism Philosophy
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Jews Legal status, laws, etc. 1933-1945
;
History
Abstract:
Analyzes Nazi policies regarding the "Mischlinge" (half-Jews and quarter-Jews - i.e. with one Jewish parent or one Jewish grandparent). Nazi party hard-liners, and the SS, wished half-Jews to be treated as Jews, and quarter-Jews as Aryans (with restrictions). But there was a lobby within the ministerial bureaucracy, especially in the Interior Ministry, which worked to exclude the "Mischlinge" from persecution. The key official who endeavored to protect the "Mischlinge" was Bernhard Lösener, desk officer for racial affairs in the Interior Ministry, who had the grudging support of his superior, State Secretary Wilhelm Stuckart. Above all, however, the "Mischlinge" owed their survival to Hitler’s own caution and uncertainty. His attitude toughened in 1942, but he declined to include them in the Final Solution. Gives details on the legislation regarding "Mischlinge", their status in the Reich in regard to marriage, employment, military service, and citizenship, their status in the occupied territories where half-Jews were treated as Jews, and the importance of the "blood" issue in Nazi ideology and policy.
Note:
Record created automatically from multi-article record # 000032001
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Appeared also in "Holocaust; Critical Concepts in Historical Studies" I (2004).
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/34.1.291
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