Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Rassegna Mensile di Israel
Angaben zur Quelle:
55,1 (1990) 27-41
Keywords:
Schmitt, Carl,
;
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
States that before 1933 German jurist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) evinced episodic expressions of Catholic antisemitism, but later, nourishing hopes to become the chief jurist of the Nazi regime, he was a fervent Nazi, publishing antisemitic notes and justifying the Nuremberg Laws. His pretentions were cut short in 1936 when the SS publication "Das Schwarze Korps" criticized his late conversion to Nazism and his previous links to Jews. After the war, Schmitt claimed to have been opposed to Nazism and to have tried to divert Nazism from biological racism to traditional antisemitism, but he always kept silent on the Holocaust. In his "Il Leviatano nella dottrina dello stato di Thomas Hobbes" (1938), republished unchanged in 1982, Schmitt equates liberalism with conflict of ideas, claiming that liberal Jews want to shatter the unity of the state in order to rule it, and that converted Jews are Trojan horses.
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