Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Political Psychology
Angaben zur Quelle:
18,1 (1997) 129-145
Keywords:
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Takes issue with the idea that the Germans were indifferent to the murder of the Jews during the Holocaust. Germans perceived Jews as poisonous, biological matter - "life unworthy of life" - and shared a group state of mind in which many individual Germans, particularly those in the professions, enthusiastically participated in the logistics, machinery, ideology, and legitimation of mass murder. To Germans of that era, expression of sentiments favorable to the Jews was regarded as crazy. Germans generally had no moral qualms about killing Jews. Hatred of the Jews existed throughout German society, regardless of class.
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