Language:
German
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
57,4 (2009) 337-351
Keywords:
Binz, Gerhard Ludwig
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
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National socialism Philosophy
Abstract:
Analyzes an article published in a Nazi academic journal, "Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte", in 1930, as evidence that the Nazis early had very practical plans for the step-by-step "elimination" of the Jews. The author was Gerhard Ludwig Binz, an expert on military law, then a high-ranking SA officer, and, after he fell into disfavor along with the rest of the SA leadership, a lower-ranking official in the Interior Ministry. The "Monatshefte" were published by Hitler himself, and the article presumably had his approbation. It warned of the peril posed by the Jews and proposed their exclusion from German society, the economy, citizenship, and all civil rights, just as it was later carried out; and finally their "elimination" in the context of a European racial war. Suggests that by "elimination" Binz already meant extermination, and that an article such as this helped make the "unimaginable" imaginable and doable. Emphasizes that the Nazi antisemitic program was an end in itself, not merely a means of building social solidarity.
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