Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Fascismo y antifascismo en Europa y Argentina
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2002) 11-20
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
Opposes Goldhagen's thesis that when Hitler came to power the large majority of the German people were already nazified. Analyzes the relationship, during the Weimar period, between the propaganda of the extreme right and the ideological demands of the public. The study is based on a sample of the platforms of the extreme right (1918-32) and on a survey by Erich Fromm and Hilde Weiss ("Arbeiter und Angestellte am Vorabend des Dritten Reiches"), which explored the mentality of the Germans in the last stages of Weimar. Asserts, based on these sources, that it was not the antisemitic consensus which paved the way to the Third Reich (since antisemitism was not at the center of the Nazi discourse); the denunciation of the system of Weimar was responsible for the German crisis. Fear and the hope to rebuild the "Deutsche Volksgemeinschaft" under the direction of the "Führer" made the rest of the "Nazi package" acceptable for the German public.
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