19th Century Antisemitism
La France Julive
- Jews were plotting to destroy French civilization - Jews cause of French problem, they control everything - Solution, Jews should be expelled
Christian Social Parties (Vienna)
- Karl Lueger - Anti everything - Successful
Herreinvolk
- Master race - Aryan should dominate the world
Fritsch
- Politician, published "Racist Decolouge" - No sex, blood purity
Antisemitism appealing?
- Popular after WWII - Provided a people a way to understand a complicated confusing modernity
Stoecker
- Preacher, politician - Charismatic, nationalist
Protocols of the Elders of ZIon
- Russian secret police - 1903 - Pretends the actual meeting of Jewish leaders that plot and destroy the world (1897)
Chamberlain
- Should admire how Jews kept their blood pure - Race is important, it determine who you are, how smart you are, etc. - Jews control Europe --> racial nightmare
European Aesthetic Values
- White became better, tall, blue eyes - Races associated with country - Social Darwinism
19th centuy
-Revival - Jews did not belong - Ideas of Anti Semitics did have an impact on Nazis
Western/Central Europe
Antisemitism was not adopted by government, Jews did not suffer
Pseudepigrapha
False writing
Treitschke Solution Jews
Jews become German, but that's not going to happen
Stoecker Jew influence
Jews have too much influence
"Conspiracy Theory"
Jews were plotting to destroy Western civilizations
Stoecker Jew Culture
Jews work for press, bad because they invent scandals through press
What did Hitler learn from CSP
Liked how Luegar used anti Semitic to whip up the masses, and the political use of antisemitism
Literary Antisemitism
Propaganda
Linz Program 1882
Removal of Jew influence in all public life
How does Stoecker solve Jew Problem
Restrict the "plague, disease, cancer"
Eastern Europe
Restricted Jews
What did Jews look like?
Short, dark, fraudulent, cunning, dishonest
Why were racial thinkers dangerous
To be Jew was dangerous, no amount of conversion can fix they were just Jew and evil
Streams of literary antisemitism
"Conspiracy Theory" of Jewish History
Christian Social Worker Party (Berlin)
- Adolf Stoecker - Appealed largely to middle class - Called for Emancipation of German People from Foreign Domination (restricting Jews)
Political Parties
- Blame Jews, Jews should be restricted - Filled political life with antisemitism rhetoric
Political Antisemitism
- Creation of political parties
CSWP Restricting Jews
- Curbing civil rights - Economic rights - Party went No Where
United Germany
- Didn't unite all Germans - Jews were enemies, Germans were honest, industrious, hard working while Jews were dry and desecrated
Semitics?
- Evil race, that was seeking to destroy Aryans - Responsible for ills of modernity, must be expatriated
Pan German Party (Austria)
- Georg von Schoenerer - Extreme Nationalist Party - Opposed many things not just Jews - Linz Program 1882
Stoecker Jews economically
- Germans are being exploited by Jews from mortgage/credit - Jew economic power should be limited
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
- Germans were the savior of mankind - Enemy --> Jews
Modernit
- Hated political/ economic modernity - Political (democracy --> messy) - Economic (capitalism) - Jews were scapegoats, and they benefited from modernity
Trietschke
- Historian, scholarly, professional - Logical, rational
How are Jews destroying the Aryans?
- Intermarriage - Jew v. Aryan (if Jew won, Aryan race would be destroyed)
Treitschke Nation
- Invaded by disease - Infestation, gain control
Mein kampf
- Jew should not have influence - Jews are NOT German, Jews are Jews, not Aryans - Biological, DINA, NO religion - Blood purity - Stab in the Back Theory --> Jews betrayed Germans
How Stoecker felt about Judaism
- Jews --> against Christianity --> against Germany - Did not want to convert, could care less
Treitschke jews
- Jews are not helping the unification of Germany - Hates the Polish Jews for migration
Richard Wagner
- Jews can't create music - Glorified Aryan race
Revolutionary Idea
- Jews were human beings - Jews were citizens - Enlightenment
5 levels of white
1.) Aryan 2.) Alpines 3.) Latin 4.) Slavs 5.) Jews
2 causes for Jew hate
1.) Hatred of Modernity 2.) Problem with Germany 3.) Nationalism
3 types of Antisemitism
1.) Political 2.) Racial 3.) Literary
Late 1870s
All over Europe, from France to Russia, there was an eruption of anti Jewish hostility
Nationalism
Became important for many people, ethnic loyalty
Racial antisemitism
Certain races are superior than others who are inferior and superior race should dominate
Judenrein
Cleanse of Jews, purify
Volkish Ideology
Glorified German volk but dismissed the present German state
Who put racial views into practice
Hitler, took antisemitism to the ultimate conclusion
Protocols
Hoax aimed to show international conspiracy for Jew domination
How did CSP improve Vienna?
Introduced gas works, troupe system, modernized Vienna