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The background of European and German anti-Semitism and racist theories -…
The background of European and German anti-Semitism and racist theories
Medival Anti-Semitism
Jews blamed for Black Death
Blood libel myth
Jews blamed for death of Christ
Isolated jews from econonomic, social and political life
Economic resentment-allowed to charge intrest for loans
forced to live in gettoes reinforcing status as outsiders
culture/religion misunderstod and looked with suspicion
18th and 19th century
Accepted Jews as citizens with same rights
Made efforts to integrate them into society
EU became less dominated by religion
Economic resentment-jobs after industrialisation (literacy)
Blamed for inflation
Pogromons in EU early ages
1096: Rhineland Massacress (German Crusades)
1263 Massacre in London
1306 France confiscates all Jewish property
1290 massacre in York
Progress of Anti-Semitism
Religious reformation-Luther Anti-Semitic
Anti-Semitism became politicised-Jews became scapegoats
Enlighment: countries enationalistic- saw Jews as outsiders
Protocols of Elders of Zion: (Russia 1905) 'alien'
Anti-Marxism-Jewsih-Bolshevisk myth (Rathenau)
WW1: myth of finantial profit
WW1: disillusioned soldiers turned to racist political right
Protocols of Elders of Zion: conspiring to take over world
German academics
Durhig: 'scarcely human' enemies all nations esp Germany
Newsp editors, artists and musicians pushed anti-Semitsm
For example Wagner
Growth of Anti-Semitism in Germany
Right wing nationalist parties gained majority after war
Pan German League: Kleindeutschland (ethnic germans)
By 1933 400 anti-Semtitic organisations+socieities
Hitler speeches in trial after Putsch (thousands + press)
Ineffective Weimar was ran by Jews-had too much power
Hitler's Mein Kampf
Pogromons later ages
Belis Case in Russia in 1913
The Dreyfus Case in France 1894
1903 massacre in Kishinev
Racial Anti-Semitism
Pseodoscience misused to claim difference between races and marganilize jews (e.g Social Dwarwinism)
Gobineau: race-rise and fall of nation + Arayan race superior
Enlighment influenced basis to racial rather than religious
Hitler's Anti-Semitism
Austro-Hungary: sense of superiority over slavs+jews
Austro-Hungary: finance myths of Jews (Rothschilds)
Inferiority complex about lack of educational qualifications
Vienna: was endemic when he lived there
WW1 had finally given him compradeship and security
Klara Hitler died of cancer treatment- blamed doctor (Jew)
Griepenkerl, man who rejected him in art school, Jewish
Scapegoat for downfall of Fatherland loss + ceasfire+ treaty
November Criminals