Language:
French
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Etudes Inter-Ethniques
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (1987) 3-24
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
National socialism Philosophy
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
A paper presented at the conference "Ethnicité et figures phobiques" (Lille, May 1987). An application of the author's scapegoat model to the history of German antisemitism. Notes the racial aspects of German nationalism and its tendency to define German national identity by opposing it to a negative image of other nations. The negative image of the Jews offered an explanation for all the national defeats and crises. Hitler transformed extant anti-Jewish attitudes and stereotypes into a coherent antisemitic theory and a strategy to exercise power. Points to three levels of Hitler's antisemitic conception: metaphysical (the Jew as evil), biological (the Jewish people as the anti-race), and microbial (the Jew as a "virus"). Emphasizes that the Nazi struggle against the Jews had a cosmic dimension, viewed as a struggle for human regeneration. The Final Solution appeared as a progressive radicalization of this ideology, accelerated by the German penetration into Poland and the USSR.
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