Before the Holocaust: Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi Takeover 1st Edition

Before the Holocaust: Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi Takeover 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780192865076,0192865072,9780192688514, 0192688510

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0192688510
• ISBN-13: 9780192688514
• Author: Hermann Beck

As the Nazis staged their takeover in 1933, instances of antisemitic violence began to soar. While previous historical research assumed that this violence happened much later, Hermann Beck counteracts this, drawing on sources from twenty German archives, and focussing on this early violence, and on the reaction of German institutions and the elites who led them. Before the Holocaust examines the antisemitic violence experienced in this period – from boycotts, violent attacks, robbery, extortion, abductions, and humiliating ‘pillory marches’, to grievous bodily harm and murder – which has hitherto not been adequately recognized. Beck then analyses the reactions of those institutions that still had the capacity to protest against Nazi attacks and legislative measures – the Protestant Church, the Catholic Church, the bureaucracies, and Hitler’s conservative coalition partner, the DNVP – and the mindset of the elites who led them, to determine their various responses to flagrant antisemitic abuses. Individual protests against violent attacks, the April boycott, and Nazi legislative measures were already hazardous in March and April 1933, but established institutions in the German State and society were still able to voice their concerns and raise objections. By doing so, they might have stopped or at least postponed a radicalization that eventually led to the pogrom of 1938 (Kristallnacht) and the Holocaust.

Table contents:

1. Violence Against “Ostjuden” in the Winter and Spring of 1933

2. “Ostjuden” as Predetermined Targets: a History of Marginalization

3. Attacks Against American and West European Jews, Among Others

4. Violent Attacks

5. Pillory Marches and the Perfidy Decree

6. Murder

7. Boycott

8. Legal and Economic Discrimination

9. The Protestant Church and the “Jewish Question”: The Church as Conscience of the Nation

10. Protestant Church Leaders and the “Jewish Question”: Conscience Betrayed

11. The Protestant Church Between Action and Silence

12. The German Catholic Church Between Doctrine and Self-Preservation

13. Reactions of the German Administrative and Judicial Bureaucracy

14. Reactions of Hitler’s Conservative Coalition Partner

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