The rise of Nazism to power

Dr. David Silberklang

The “Redemptive Antisemitism” of the Nazis saw the Jews as a fundamental threat to the Aryan race and to the world. The Jews, by their mere existence, were perceived by the Nazis as a disruptive element which poisons humanity and is a hazard to the existence of the natural order. This would lead to a disastrous outcome for the Jews once Hitler and the Nazi party ascended to power.

What factors brought about the Nazis rise to power? What place did antisemitism hold in it?

References

• Benz, Wolfgang, A Concise History of the Third Reich (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).

• Burleigh, Michael,and Wolfgang Wippermann, The Racial State: Germany, 1933-1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

• Evans, Richard J., The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939: How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts and Minds of a Nation (New York: Penguin Press, 2005).

• Kershaw, Ian, Hitler, 2 vols. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999-2000).