During the 60 years between the founding of Bismarck's German Empire and Hitler's rise to power, German-speaking Jews left a profound mark on Central Europe and on 20th-century culture. This title presents a study of the fateful symbiosis between Germans and Jews in Central Europe, which culminated in the tragic denouement of the Holocaust.
The relationship between Austrians and Jews in the twentieth-century has been tragic. In the age of Franz Joseph, Jews achieved a degree of security, although their position was already being undermined by antisemitism, ethnic conflicts and nationalism. This book examines the relationship between Austrians and Jews which culminated in the 1938 Anschluss and the Holocaust. It also shows how antisemitism survived the War and how the ground was prepared for the international isolation of Austria during the Waldheim Affair.
Robert Wistrich begins by exploring the origins of anti-Semitism in Europe, and especially in Germany, to try to explain how millions of Jews came to be killed systematically by the Third Reich. In the process of relating these events, he provides new and incisive answers to a number of central questions concerning the Shoah that have emerged over recent years: who, inside and outside Nazi Germany, knew that Jews were being murdered; how responsibility for the genocide should be divided between Hitler himself and ordinary Germans; and how historians have tried to make sense of the Holocaust. The book concludes by considering the legacy of Nazi crimes since 1945: the Nuremburg trials, the impact of the Holocaust on Diaspora Jewry (particularly in Israel and America), and the rise of neo-Nazism and Holocaust-denial. Wistrich¿s book provides an exemplary account of the horrors that took place Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, and is a powerful and original contribution to the literature of those terrible events.
The Nazis were masters of the orchestration of power. This book analyzes the ways in which they used art, mass culture and mythology to mobilize the German people and legitimize their own rule. It includes images by an amateur film-maker of the Day of German Art in Munich in 1939.
Holocaust Denial. The Politics of Perfidy provides a graphic and compelling global panorama of past and present variations on this toxic phenomenon. The volume examines right and left wing French negationism, post-Communist Holocaust deniers in Eastern-Europe, the spread of denial to Australia, Canada, South-Africa and even to Japan. Leading scholarly experts also explore the close connection between Holocaust denial, global conspiracy theories, antisemitism and radical anti-Zionism – especially in Iran and the Arab world.
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»Während Hitler lauthals seine eiserne Entschlossenheit herausposaunte, die Juden zu vernichten, bemühten sich die Alliierten, über diesen Völkermord mit Ansage den Mantel des Schweigens zu breiten – und zeigten damit, dass das Schicksal der Juden für sie nachrangig war. Die Juden waren, wie ich in meinem Buch mehrmals anmerke, letzten Endes entbehrlich – und das registrierten Hitler und Goebbels sehr schnell. Zur Apathie und zum Schweigen der westlichen Führer im Verlauf des Holocaust gibt es in der heutigen Zeit einige beunruhigende Analogien, insbesondere was den Iran betrifft.«
Die Political Correctness spielt ihre ganz eigene, den Westen lähmende Rolle, sobald ein Wissenschaftler oder Journalist versucht sich mit einem beliebigen Aspekt des Islam zu befassen. Selbst die fürchterlichsten Taten derer, die ohne zu zögern unschuldige Zivilisten im Namen des Jihad gegen die „Feinde des Islam“ opferten, führten zu zweideutigen und zögerlichen westlichen Reaktionen, wenn es dar-um ging, die involvierten Doktrinen des Islam zu kritisieren. Der Krieg gegen Al-Qaida wurde von den Präsidenten Bush und Obama sinnentleert als ein „Krieg gegen den Terror“ bezeichnet, um eine Beleidigung des Islam als Religion zu vermeiden – dabei wurde doch der Islam aus politischen Gründen bereits von den Jihadisten gekapert.