Anti-Semitism and Nazism
Reconciling Fromm and Goldhagen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3757447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert B Smith (0000-0002-2829-5360, Social Structural Research, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1324-1362 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764298041009009 |
| OpenAlex | W2000857707 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 28 |
Erich Fromm's The Working Class in Weimar Germany relates political party affiliation to attitudes; some findings imply that many German workers circa 1929-1930 were not anti-Semitic. Contrariwise, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners Posits uniformly high levels of eliminationist, racially based anti-Semitism among the Germans who perpetrated the mass killings of Jews circa 1941 and thereafter. Because these killers were ordinary Germans, Goldhagen believes that almost any German would have willingly conducted the genocide. By explicating the process of Nazification of Germans, this article aims to reconcile these seemingly contradictory observations. The Germans' anti-Semitism increased over time because of the Nazis' threat of coercion, the public's perceptions of the regime's economic and international achievements, and anti-Semitic propaganda. By 1941, many Germans had internalized the Nazi worldview, which included eliminationist anti-Semitism as an intrinsic component. Had such Nazified Germans been called upon to serve in the killing units, many would have-some with enthusiasm and some with reluctance. Their anti-Semitism and the cohesion of their killing units would have directed them to kill Jews
Coercion (linguistics) · Criminology · Genocide · German · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Holocaust · World War II · European history and politics · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
Authoritarian Personality
The Social Misconstruction of Reality
The Captive Press in the Third Reich
Informal social communication.
Elections, Mass Politics and Social Change in Modern Germany
The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy.
The Nazi Party. A Social Profile of Members and Leaders 1919-1945
Who Voted for Hitler
Accounting for Genocide
Social Policy in the Third Reich
Dissolution
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s 'Crazy' Thesis
Hitler's Thirty Days to Power
Nazi Germany and the Jews, Vol. 1
Hitler's Willing Executioners
Revising the Holocaust
Propaganda in War and Crisis
Deviation, rejection, and communication
America, FDR, and the Holocaust
Hitler's willing executioners
Who Joined the Nazis and Why
On Coming to Terms with the Past
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2010 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |