Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,3 (1991) 233-252
Schlagwort(e):
Dinter, Artur,
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Antisemitism History 1800-2000
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National socialism Philosophy
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Antisemitism in literature
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German literature History and criticism
Kurzfassung:
Analyzes the theological and literary work of Artur Dinter (1876-1948), a Nazi promoter of religious and racial antisemitism in the early 1920s. Dinter combined Chamberlain's racism with occultism and a new Germanic form of Christianity and theosophy by elaborating a "Spiritualist Christianity" (later, the German People's Church) expressed in a popular literary form. His novel "The Sin against the Blood" (1918), which reached millions of readers, focused on saving Germany and the Aryan race from the Jewish demonic conspiracy and domination. He held that as Jesus was an Aryan hero, Christianity is an Aryan faith, which must be de-Judaized, purged of Paul's writings and ideas, and Old Testament elements. Despite his radical antisemitism, Dinter was expelled from the Nazi Party in 1928, due to his opposition to the traditional Church. He disagreed with antisemitic violence, and with the extermination policy, seeing the Jews as part of God's cosmic order, but his ideas prepared the attitude of mind that would encourage the Final Solution.
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