Krise und Antisemitismus : eine Geschichte in drei Stationen von der Gründerzeit über die Weltwirtschaftskrise bis heute

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Hanloser, Gerhard, 1972-

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Analyzes three crises in the German economy - in 1873, 1929, and 2000 - from the point of view of Marxism and critical theory, and as they were explained at the time. In the first two instances, th...

Analyzes three crises in the German economy - in 1873, 1929, and 2000 - from the point of view of Marxism and critical theory, and as they were explained at the time. In the first two instances, these explanations fanned antisemitism, because the Jews were identified with the stock market in 1873 and with exploitative bankers and international financial machinations in 1929. The Nazis adopted this view in order to explain the failure of their own self-contradictory economic policies. Explanations of 21st-century crises seem to present opportunities for antisemitic propaganda, but this has not happened, except on the radical right. States that there is still plenty of antisemitism in Germany, but public opinion no longer attributes economic crises to particular persons or groups.

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