Language:
German
Year of publication:
2015
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
24 (2015) 155-181
Keywords:
Niekisch, Ernst,
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Antisemitism History 20th century
;
Antisemitism in literature
;
Wandering Jew in literature
Abstract:
Discusses the antisemitic views of the German politician and publicist, and exponent of National Bolshevism, Ernst Niekisch (1889-1967). Niekisch strongly opposed Hitler and Nazism from an even more radical antisemitic point of view. He believed that Nazism, as well as Hitler's political stance, had roots in Judaism, especially in relation to the idea of “the chosen people” and of "messianism”, which had become part of Christian theology. Niekisch felt that Hitler was continuing that Jewish-Christian tradition in Western culture. Therefore, Nazism and Hitler were incapable of terminating Jewish influence in the Occident. They were also incapable of finding remedies for the evils that Jews had caused: the surge of Christianity, the destruction of rural life and the promotion of urban life, the destruction of the local culture for a cosmopolitan one (characteristic of the Roman Empire and Christianity), the destruction of the intrinsic value of things by the notion of price, which became the basis for capitalism. He thought that Stalin and Soviet Russia were the only forces capable of successfully confronting the Jewish-Christian-Roman tradition and culture. Stalin, in his view a true revolutionary, represented the values of local, land-based culture, and anti-capitalism. Niekisch advocated union of the German and the Slavic folk to fight Judaism and Christianity. He was interned in prison between 1937-1945. This study is based on some of Niekisch's writings published during the 1930s, such as “Entscheidungen (1930), “Die dritte imperiale Figur” (1934), “Geheimnis des Reichs” (1936), and the pamphlet “Hitler - Ein deutsches Verhängnis” (1932).
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