Language:
German
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
7 (1998) 82-92
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Antisemitism
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
Antisemitism has always been a part of nationalism in Eastern Europe. In post-communist Slovakia, it was fueled by the fear caused by radical political, economic, and cultural change. Polls show that, in the early 1990s, 27-32% of Slovaks rejected Jews as neighbors; they were branded as covetous, as strangers, and as supporters of Hungary. 18% disagreed with the statement that Jews suffered more than the rest of the population in the Second World War. Nationalists glorify Slovakia's former period of independence in 1939-45 and exonerate the "new" nationalist hero Tiso from guilt for his deportation of the Jews in the Holocaust. An eighth-grade textbook by Milan S. Ďurica, promoted by the government, describes the "good life" in the Slovak concentration camps.
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