Language:
German
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
13 (2004) 111-137
Keywords:
Class, Heinrich,
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
The original aim of the Alldeutsche Verband was to nurture the greatness of the German "Volk" and its culture, and extend its influence over other, inferior races. Many, but far from all of its members and leaders were moderately antisemitic. In 1908, Heinrich Class, a radical antisemite, became chairman, and attracted other radical antisemites to the organization. They began, cautiously, blaming Germany's ills on weaklings, democrats, socialists, capitalists, internationalists, materialists - in short, the polar opposites of strong, idealistic, patriotic Germans - without explicitly identifying them as Jews. These non-Germans were seen as controlling the economy and the press, and weakening Germany by attracting the people to their decadent values. During World War I the organization became more explicit in blaming the Jews for German weakness and disunity and for defeatist calls to end the war - the beginning of the "Dolchstoss" legend. At the end of the war it formed a committee on the Jewish question, which developed into the virulently antisemitic Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund.
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