Language:
German
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Deutschland Archiv
Angaben zur Quelle:
37,3 (2004) 475-484
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
By the end of the 19th century Jews in Germany seemed to have achieved integration. In the Weimar Republic, however, burgeoning antisemitism kept pace with Jewish success. Despite disproportionate Jewish participation in the First World War, Jews were seen as shirkers and war profiteers. This climate prepared the public to accept Nazi persecution of the Jews. Enumerates some of the measures that successively restricted Jewish life until the deportations. After the war, despite Allied educational efforts, Germans ignored the Holocaust and resented Jewish DPs. Antisemitism persisted, but was expressed only obliquely. Jews in East Germany felt discrimination, but polls taken immediately after the unification found much less antisemitism than in the West, along with opposition to Zionism and Israel. Nowadays, Eastern and Western poll results are roughly equal: ca. 20% of Germans harbor latent antisemitic tendencies. Analyzes the psychological functions of antisemitism, asserting that it has nothing to do with Jewish characteristics or behavior, but is a projection of the frustrations, fears, and guilt of the non-Jewish majority.
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