Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Modern History
Angaben zur Quelle:
68,2 (1996) 351-381
Keywords:
Antisemitism Political aspects
;
Antisemitism History 1918-1939
;
Antisemitism Political aspects
;
Antisemitism History 1918-1933
;
Antisemitism History 1933-1939
;
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Jews History 1918-1939
Abstract:
Despite great differences between interwar Poland and Germany, as well as the character of the Jews in each country, both of them reveal similar traits in the dynamics of antisemitism. In both countries, it was the modernizing Christian middle-class elements, striving for advancement in the emergent industrial-capitalist order at the expense of Jews, who promoted political antisemitism. The influence of the "old middle class" (artisans, etc.) on state policy was weak. After the economic disaster of the early 1930s, the middle class wanted the state to help them improve their economic positions. Both the Nazis and the Polish Endeks of Roman Dmowski (later OZON bloc, dominant in the Polish parliament in the late 1930s) were parties of modernization, backed up by urban elements - business people and, especially in Germany, professionals - - not by backward classes. Pp. 353-358 analyze the report composed by Neville Laski in 1934, after his trip to Austria, Poland, and Danzig which were stricken by the depression, depicting the mood toward the Jews in these countries.
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