Language:
German
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
4 (1995) 63-87
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Describes the variations of the New Right and "life reform" movement which developed in Germany in the decades leading up to and immediately after the First World War. It arose in opposition to modernization, liberalism, socialism, and fin-de-siecle decadence, and its "völkisch" authoritarian ideology often identified the Jew as the personification of all these evils and the greatest danger to Germany. When the antisemitic Heinrich Class became head of the Alldeutsche Verband in 1908, the movement acquired a respectable organizational framework and attracted broader sectors of the population. Between 1912-14 there arose a large number of other "völkisch", mostly antisemitic organizations. In February 1919 the Alldeutsche Verband issued a declaration blaming Jewish influence on the home front for the German defeat; the same month saw the founding of the Deutschvoelkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund. Hitler took up much of the ideology of these organizations, but changed it for his own ends: in order to win over the workers, his propaganda emphasized Jewish capitalism, of which communism was said to be merely the dupe.
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