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Antisemitism in Germany in the 1930s

Antisemitism in Germany in the 1930s

Prof. Dan Michman, Dr. David Silberklang

Once Hitler ascended to power and actual antisemitic policies were implemented, a wave of antisemitism spread throughout the country. Let’s hear more about this and about the anti-Jewish policies of the years leading up to the outbreak of WWII.

What place did antisemitism hold in German popular opinion during this time period?

References

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  • Bankier, David, The Germans and the Final Solution: Public Opinion under Nazism (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996).

  • Barkai, Avraham, From Boycott to Annihilation, trans. bu William Templer (Hannover, NH: University Press of New England, 1989).

  • Benz, Wolfgang, “Exclusion as a Stage in Persecution. The Jewish Situation in Germany, 1933-1941,” in David Bankier and Israel Gutman, eds., Nazi Europe and the Final Solution (Jerusalem 2003: Yad Vashem), pp. 40 – 53.

  • Friedländer, Saul, Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 (New York: Harper Collins, 1997).

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  • Kershaw, Ian , Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria, 1933-1945 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983).

  • Kulka, Otto Dov and Eberhard Jäckel, The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion in Germany, 1933-1945 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010) .

  • Michman, Dan, The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos During the Holocaust (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

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