VIOLENCE AND TERROR - THE NAZI-GERMAN CONCEPTION OF KILLING AND MURDER (FROM INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD, 1978, BY MARIUS LIVINGSTON - SEE NCJ-52737)

• NCJ Number: 52758
• Author(s): W GLICKSMAN
• Date Published: 1978
• Length: 13 pages
• Corporate Author: Greenwood Publishing Group
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

POLITICAL AND CULTURAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NAZI-GERMAN VIEW OF KILLING AND MURDER AS FORMS OF VIOLENCE AND TERROR ARE ANALYZED.

Abstract

IN THE 19TH CENTURY, THE GERMANS BELIEVED THAT THEY WERE THE BEARERS OF TRUE CULTURE AND THAT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE (RACES) HAD TO OFFER WAS EITHER INFERIOR OR INJURIOUS. THIS WAS THE BASIS FOR THE GERMAN CONCEPT OF RACIAL ANTI-SEMITISM. PERSONS MOST FANATICAL IN THEIR HATRED OF THE JEWISH CAME PRIMARILY FROM URBAN RATHER THAN RURAL AREAS; THAT IS, THEY WERE MEMBERS OF THE SO-CALLED EDUCATED CLASS. FOR THE GERMAN, VIOLENCE AND TERROR WERE ACTS OF RACIAL PURIFICATION AND ALSO ACTS OF MASCULINITY. METHODS OF VIOLENCE APPLIED BY HITLER TOWARD THE JEWS AND OTHER OPPONENTS ARE REVIEWED, INCLUDING THE LOOTING AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY, THE INCITING OF MOBS AGAINST JEWS, DEPORTATION, AND MURDER. NOTES ARE INCLUDED. (DEP)