Language:
German
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
27 (1998) 221-250
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Foreign public opinion, Eretz Israel
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Eretz Israel History 1917-1948, British Mandate period
Abstract:
German colonists of the pietist Tempelgesellschaft in Palestine had an ambivalent relation to the expanding Jewish Yishuv: on the one hand the Yishuv increased economic opportunities, but on the other, backed by Jewish financial power, it constituted competition. Above all, the Germans saw themselves as the Chosen People and the Promised Land as theirs; the Jews had forfeited it by their crucifixion of Jesus. Now the Jews, with their materialism and modernism, were triumphantly taking over. By 1933, German nationalism had taken the place of religion: a large percentage of the descendants of the Templars joined the Nazi party. Nazi racist propaganda found fertile ground in the already existing anti-Jewish resentment. Although Jewish suspicions of German espionage and of cooperation with the Arab uprising were probably groundless, the British deported many of the Germans during the war.
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