Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
German Studies Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
19,3 (1996) 525-537
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
A revised version of a paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association in Dallas, October 1994. The German conservative elites - estate owners, army officers, high-ranking civil servants, clergy of the German Evangelical Church, industrialists - supported the Nazis both before and after 1933. They had their own brand of antisemitism, especially strong amongst the eastern Prussian estate owners. Antisemitism was one of the factors which cemented the alliance between the Nazis and the conservatives, and many conservatives gained benefits from the Nazi antisemitic policy. Although the conservative elites' antisemitism was more reserved than that of the Nazis, it nevertheless ensured the complicity of these elites in the Final Solution.
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