Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Bulletin (German Historical Institute)
Angaben zur Quelle:
24,1 (2002) 5-28
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Based on a lecture delivered at the German Historical Institute in March 2001. Stresses that although the "völkisch" outlook and movement are often associated with the Weimar period, both existed long before World War I. They created the ideological breeding ground, organizational prerequisites, and propaganda instruments later utilized by Nazism. While the Nazis did not embrace all that the "völkisch" movement espoused, it adopted one aspect totally, the racist ideology. Antisemitism was rooted in the movement from the 1880s, and was expressed in Aryan identification, eugenic views, and religious attitudes that favored either an Aryan Christianity or an anti-Jewish and anti-Christian paganism. Race and blood were crucial to the "völkisch" worldview. One of the movement's leaders, Theodor Fritsch, has been referred to as an "early planner of the Holocaust".
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