Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
4,4 (1989) 479-499
Keywords:
Antisemitism
Abstract:
Antisemitism was an integral part of public life and military thinking under the junta. Distinguishes between physical punishment and verbal abuse against Jewish prisoners, and divides the verbal abuse into three categories: based on traditional antisemitism, where the Jew was seen as a foreign element, the Antichrist, and the Marxist; antisemitism imbued with Nazi symbols and ideas; and anti-Zionist antisemitism, where charges of dual loyalty and lack of patriotism to Argentina were voiced. Argues that the number of Jews arrested and missing during this period greatly exceeded their proportion in the general population and that both in the quantity and quality of punishment, Jews were singled out. Notes that the large number of Nazis who arrived in Argentina after the war, and their participation and influence in the military forces, accounts in part for the ferocity of anti-Jewish attitudes and acts. Provides statistics of the number of Jewish victims of the military regime - nearly 1,000 Jews died.
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