Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Antisemitism Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
7,1 (2023) 135-151
Keywords:
Hitler, Adolf, Political and social views
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Antisemitism History 20th century
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Anti-globalization movement History 20th century
Abstract:
While the connection between Adolf Hitler’s antisemitism and his anti-capitalism is often noted en passant, and has been the subject of some individual studies,1 its centrality to his worldview has not been sufficiently understood. This article seeks to show that it was Hitler’s fear of international capitalism and “high finance,” and his anxiety about Anglo-American power, more than concerns related to socialism, communism, and the Russian Revolution that underlay his early preoccupation with “the Jews.”2 This is not to suggest that Hitler was a man of the Left or to mark today’s anti-capitalists with the charge of antisemitism. Rather, the purpose of this exercise is to illuminate the evolution of Hitler’s thinking prior to the programmatic statements made in Mein Kampf, and to establish how he came to understand the role played by what he called “world Jewry.” It was a view that he maintained throughout his career and one that was to have catastrophic consequences two decades later.
DOI:
10.2979/ast.2023.a885995
URL:
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