Language:
German
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Sachor
Angaben zur Quelle:
7 (1997) 40-55
Keywords:
Jews, East European
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Europe, Eastern Emigration and immigration
;
Germany Emigration and immigration
Abstract:
Discusses the history of the term "Ostjuden", pointing out that it subsumed Jews who differed widely from one another under one, negative, stereotype. The number of Jews who fled to Germany from the hardships and persecutions of Eastern Europe is hard to determine; many were only in transit to other countries. In any case, their appearance and manners were considered repulsive; they aroused fear of economic competition and of a Germany ruined by an influx of aliens. There were demands to deport them, and the government repeatedly obliged. During World War I, Germany recruited Poles, among them many Jews, for labor in Germany; at the end of the war these were joined by large numbers of refugees. Antisemites accused them of criminality, sexual depravation, and the spread of disease. There were pogroms, the largest one in Berlin in November 1923. Prussia and Bavaria tried to stop Jewish immigration from the East; Prussia placed unwanted immigrants in internment camps under inhuman conditions.
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