Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9805249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C G Krüger, Carsten Krüger (0000-0001-7936-7689, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 510 |
| Pages | 1208-1210 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cep227 |
| OpenAlex | W1977829489 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
What were National-Socialist attitudes towards Zionism? What was the position of Zionism in National-Socialist Germany? And which strategies did Zionists pursue vis-à-vis National Socialism? These are the guiding questions in Francis Nicosia's monograph. The points of departure for his study are the ideological points of contact between Zionism and anti-Semitism. Without intending to equate these movements, Nicosia shows similarities in their conception of the nation and of ethnicity which made both believe that it was impossible to be German and Jewish at the same time or to develop a German-Jewish symbiosis, and that they shared, albeit for substantially different motives, the goal of Jewish emigration from Germany. The National Socialists (and this is Nicosia's main argument) exploited Zionism for the purposes of their expulsion policy, but Zionist organisations were able nonetheless to rescue thousands of emigrants who otherwise might have been killed in the Holocaust. Whereas in the rest of the book Nicosia mainly evaluates source material from central and local Nazi police agencies and Zionist organisations, he focuses in the first chapter on the history of ideas prior to the Weimar Republic. Analysing theoretical treatises, the author here depicts the mutual perception of anti-Semitic and Zionist ideologists. Herzl and other Zionists believed that anti-Semitism would approve of Zionism. Some anti-Semites indeed considered Zionism as useful for attaining their target of eliminating Jewish life in Germany. Nevertheless, this did not lead to direct contact or co-operation between the two movements
Antisemitism · Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Economic history · German · Ideology · Judaism · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Holocaust · Zionism · European history and politics · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Soviet and Russian History
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2020 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |