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Before the Holocaust - Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi Takeover (Hardcover)
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Before the Holocaust - Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi Takeover (Hardcover)
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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.
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