Language:
German
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
47,2 (1995) 160-188
Keywords:
National socialism Philosophy
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Church history 20th century
Abstract:
Argues that Nazi racist ideology, as developed by Eckart, Goebbels, Rosenberg, and Hitler, was not so much biological as religious. All four used Christian terminology, and referred to anti-Jewish themes in the New Testament. Eckart and Rosenberg, especially, were influenced by the German mystics. They believed that God and the Nordic soul were one, and their enemy, the Antichrist, was the soulless Jew. All four saw history as a struggle between Good and Evil, in which Hitler and National Socialism were the instruments of the Good which would triumph over the instrument of Evil - the Jews - and thus redeem the world.
DOI:
10.1163/157007395X00210
URL:
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