The History of an Obsession; German Judeophobia and the Holocaust

New York: Continuum, 1998. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. viii, [2], 532, [2] pages. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Pencil erasure residue on fep. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Klaus Fischer is a cultural historian of Modern Europe with expertise in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Born in Germany in 1942, he arrived in the United States in 1959 as a 17-year-old emigrant. He attended Arizona State University and then the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his Ph.D. in 1972. He is the author of Nazi Germany: A New History and The History of an Obsession: German Judeophobia and the Holocaust. The state-sponsored genocide known as the Holocaust was the greatest crime of this century and a seminal event of modern times. Klaus Fischer unravels the complex history of Judeophobia in its four essential forms: Christian, nationalistic, social-discriminatory, and biological-racial. He argues that German defeat in World War I cleared the way for the pathological Judeophobia that formed the core of Nazism. When Hitler turned Germany into a racist totalitarian state, Jews changed from "Christ-killers" to racial subhumans. Fischer explores the German-Jewish relationship in modern times in all its dimensions. He reveals how the Nazis' anti-Jewish prejudices became public policy, and traces the interaction between ideological obsession and bureaucratic decisions that led to the Final Solution. Fischer shows the global implications of the Holocaust by exploring how collectivized and aberrant thinking, when it becomes institutionalized in a modern technological state, can cause even greater horrors in the future. Condition: Very good / Very good.

Keywords: Jews, Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Concentration Camps, Final Solution, Racism, Deportation, Euthanasia, Genocide, Nazi, National Socialism, Germans, Hatred, Judeophobia, Mass Murder, Progroms, Propaganda, Weimar Republic, Zionism

ISBN: 0826410898

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