Language:
French
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Esprit
Angaben zur Quelle:
250 (1999) 90-113
Keywords:
Drumont, Édouard, Political and social views
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Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, Political and social views
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Antisemitism History 1940-1945
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Vichy (France) Politics and government
;
Philosophy
Abstract:
Surveys anti-Jewish publications which appeared during the Vichy regime which attempted to persuade readers that the racist and antisemitic doctrines of the regime were not imported but were of French origin. Drumont was the founder of one such tradition, and even served as a "prophet" for antisemites of various orientations. Count Armand de Puységur, a founder of the Ligue antimaçonnique de France, and an antisemitic publicist since 1934, praised Drumont as a writer who uncovered the secret Jewish "conquest of France". Henri Labroue, professor of Jewish history at the Sorbonne (a chair created by Darquier de Pellepoix), in his book "Voltaire antijuif" (1942), argued that anti-Judaism is of French origin and was not imposed by the Nazis; to be anti-Jewish meant to be part of French political culture. States that these ideas strengthened the French patriots' anti-German feelings. Another idea during this period was the necessity to "purify" the French nation through sterilization of the Jews; Céline was a "prophet" of this ideology.
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