Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation

The ferocity of the Nazi attack upon the Jews took many by surprise. Volkov argues that a new look at both the nature of antisemitism and at the.
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In the following period, Jews were morally defamed in a deluge of more than 2, laws and decrees, they were excluded from social life , economically plundered, driven out of the country and physically threatened. In Hamburg a special chamber of the district court prosecuted infractions against this law with particular severity. The year saw a new increase in radicalization.

Among those affected were 1, Jews from Hamburg , who were taken to the Polish border and then forced to cross it. A short time later, the November pogroms of caused a surge in emigration among those Jews who had thus far remained in Germany. According to National Socialist documents, 91 Jews were killed nationwide, but today a much higher number of casualties is assumed between and 1, while about 1, synagogues and 7, Jewish businesses were destroyed. Demolition of the Bornplatz synagogue, Source: Moreover, about 30, Jewish men were deported to concentration camps and incarcerated for several months.

The Jewish congregation in Hamburg , which counted ca. Among the German population reactions to the pogroms were split. There were abettors and onlookers who approved of events, but there also are accounts of disapproval.

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The foreign press and foreign politicians expressed outrage at these violent excesses. The regime therefore launched a massive propaganda campaign on the radio which also used the medium of cabaret to justify events and virtually ridicule them. In October the final phase of the nationwide policy of persecution began: Entry of Hannoverscher Bahnhof , around Source: With the kind permission of the German Customs Museum.

The total number of deported German Jews is estimated at , to , Until there were 16 further transports of a total of 5, people.

Very few Jews survived persecution within the borders of Nazi Germany. Another 50 to 80 people had survived in hiding or using a false identity. The total number of victims from Hamburg is estimated at about 10, So far the names of 8, of them have been verified.

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Yet the forms it took underwent a change since antisemites now had to react to the genocide either by denial, by rejecting responsibility or by projecting guilt onto the Jews or the state of Israel. Veit Harlan after the trial in Hamburg , Source: This was accompanied by a decrease in antisemitic attitudes among the German population.

In the postwar years antisemitism targeting Israel did not play a significant role in West Germany. Only after the June war of did a part of the political left react with a radical anti-Zionism which sometimes had antisemitic undertones. Central European History, Vol. Towards a definition of Islamophobia: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol.

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This book focuses on the story of "ordinary" German Jews, concerned not merely with being like other Germans, i. They did not seek to abandon Judaism in entering German society but to reformulate and reinvent it to fit their new standing. Despite continuous antisemitism, Germany seemed to have accepted them on these terms.

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