What German antisemitism boils down to, as I understand it, is that everything bad that ever happened to Germany was the Jews' fault. Everything. And every single Jew on the planet was culpable, with malice aforethought.
Racially, the idea is that the German Volk is the best possible race; all other races (especially Slavs) are inferior, and the Jews are a disease that will infect and destroy the Volk given even the slightest shred of a whisper of opportunity. Jews were constructed, in this ideology, as not even being human--he has this amazing and horrible quote from a perpetrator who was honest in his post-war testimony that says exactly that.
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Date: 2006-09-17 11:09 pm (UTC)Racially, the idea is that the German Volk is the best possible race; all other races (especially Slavs) are inferior, and the Jews are a disease that will infect and destroy the Volk given even the slightest shred of a whisper of opportunity. Jews were constructed, in this ideology, as not even being human--he has this amazing and horrible quote from a perpetrator who was honest in his post-war testimony that says exactly that.