Antisemitische Kriminalität und Gewalt : Judenfeindschaft in der Weimarer Republik

A study of the development of antisemitic violence during the Weimar Republic, especially in Bavaria. States that between 1918-33 antisemitism was very common in the form of discrimination and disdain toward Jews. Discusses social distance from Jews, their exclusion from schools, universities, and professions, the campaign against Ostjuden in 1920, Jews held as hostages during Hitler's "putsch" in Munich, synagogue and cemetery desecrations, ritual murder propaganda, reports on violence of the SA and other right-wing groups at the end of the 1920s, the development of "völkisch" antisemitism, and the orientations of the NSDAP. Although, traditionally, antisemitism was one of the major ideological principles of the Right before 1933, varying between passive affirmation of a "Jewish problem" and approval of violence, both public and political antisemitism became more radical. Antisemitism was a basic principle in Nazism before the war, and developed its murderous destructiveness during and after the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Freiburg, 1997. 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm