Language:
French
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Esprit
Angaben zur Quelle:
136-137 (1988) 138-151
Keywords:
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
Analyzes the nature of Nazism in the context of totalitarian regimes in general, stating that the obsession with discussion of ideology has distracted attention from Nazism's brutality against the Jews. Anti-democratic Germany, in disintegration after 1918, lacked political legitimacy which was replaced by Hitler's national-racial legitimacy. Argues that antisemitism is a structural element of European culture: religious and social prejudices gave way to political antisemitism at the time of emancipation, when conservatives feared the disintegration of old traditions. Nazi racism perfected political antisemitism, giving it the form of a violent struggle for survival. Defines Nazism as a "compartmentalized" totalitarianism; it was complete only for Jews and Gypsies, but did not affect all of society as in Stalinist Russia.
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