Language:
German
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
41 (1997) 383-398
Keywords:
Schuler, Alfred,
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Refutes the allegation that the German writer (1865-1923) was a forerunner of Nazism who decisively influenced Hitler. The arguments for Schuler's supposed antisemitism are erroneous. It is true that in 1909 he broke with the Jewish poet Wolfskehl, a fellow member of the George Circle, but the two renewed their friendship later. His pagan rejection of Judeo-Christianity ("Jahwism") was not equivalent to racist antisemitism. He despised and feared the Nazis. See the response by Marita Keilson-Lauritz [ibid. 42 (1998) 301-308], in which she argues that the evidence presented by Karl-Heinz Schuler proves nothing. She suggests that Alfred Schuler's antisemitism was related to his homosexuality (its prohibition in Judaism vs. its cultivation by the Greeks), and that he rejected Hitler only because the latter was not serious about antisemitism and merely used it to attract supporters.
Description / Table of Contents:
Keilson-Lauritz, Marita. Alfred Schuler und der Nationalsozialismus; eine Erwiderung. Ibid. 42 (1998) 301-308.
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