Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany

by Francis R. Nicosia

• ISBN13: 9780521883924
• ISBN10: 052188392X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-05
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This is a study of the ideological and political relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in modern Germany, from the nineteenth century through the Third Reich, focusing on the years between 1933 and 1942. It considers three contentious issues in post-Holocaust historiography and debate: the nature of modern German anti-Semitism; the decision-making process leading to the Nazi mass murder of the Jews of Europe; and the nature and role of German Zionism in German-Jewish history before the Holocaust. This study sheds more light on both the ideological and practical assault of German anti-Semitism and Nazi Jewish policy on the Jews of Central Europe, as well as the ideological and political response of some German Jews, the Zionists, to that assault. It concludes that the attitudes and policies of German anti-Semitism and National Socialism toward Zionism reflect a relatively consistent ideology that was applied in an inconsistent and contradictory manner.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Age of Emancipation in Imperial Germany	p. 13
Zionism in Anti-Semitic Thought	p. 13
Anti-Semitism in Zionist Thought	p. 31
The Weimar Years	p. 45
German Zionism and the First World War	p. 45
German Zionism and the Nazi Threat	p. 48
Early Nazi Views on Zionism	p. 63
1933: Nazi Confusion, Zionist Illusion	p. 74
In Search of Policy	p. 74
Haavara	p. 78
Between Illusion and Reality	p. 90
Zionism in Nazi Jewish Policy, 1934-1938	p. 106
State AGencies and Zionism	p. 106
The Police and Zionism	p. 111
A Jewish State	p. 126
The SS and Zionism, 1938	p. 134
German Zionism, 1934-1938: Confrontation with Reality	p. 145
Optimism and Expansion	p. 145
Economic Decline	p. 156
Communal Relations	p. 163
Disintegration and Isolation	p. 174
Revisionist Zionism in Germany, 1934-1938	p. 181
Unity Shattered	p. 181
The State Zionist Organization	p. 185
State Zionists, the ZVfD, and the Nazi Regime	p. 189
Zionist Occupational Retraining and Nazi Jewish Policy	p. 207
Jewish Occupational Retraining Programs	p. 207
Nazi Policy and Jewish Occupational Retraining	p. 228
From Dissolution to Final Solution	p. 245
1938: Radicalization and Continuity	p. 245
Emigration Continued	p. 257
Zionism and Palestine	p. 265
Resettlement, Emigration, Genocide	p. 278
Conclusions	p. 283
Bibliography	p. 293
Index	p. 309
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