LL201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Antisemitism, World War I, Charles De Gaulle
Document Summary
After wwi: germans feel dissatis ed after the treaty of versailles, war veterans look for new parties and leaders. Republic of weimar, great political and social unrest. Ideal conditions for the creation of a new movement and party which promises a rebirth of a new and stronger germany. The nsdap = nazional sozialistische deutsche arbeiter partei = national socialist german. Workers" party = nazi party becomes an important political and social player. From the start, nazism fuels the idea of hatred of the different, the other. Their tone becomes immediately more aggressive when they start to address the jewish problem . Image of jews distorted by their relatively small number in germany. Anti-semitism existed before nazism, its cause mainly religious. Nazism has a different rationale, based on political, economic and pseudoscienti c reasons. There was a distinct difference and incompatibility between the aryan and the jewish. History is just an expression of the eternal struggle for supremacy.
