Wolfgang Benz

Das Standardwerk zur Geschichte von Antisemitismus, Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit Vorurteile und Stereotype gibt es seit Jahrtausenden. Antisemitismus, Rassismus, Muslimfeindschaft, Homophobie, Antiziganismus und andere Ausgrenzungen von Minderheiten sind langlebige, scheinbar nicht an Anziehungskraft verlierende Phanomene - aber warum? Der Zeithistoriker Wolfgang Benz zieht die Summe seines jahrzehntelangen Forschens und liefert eine einzigartige Gesamtdarstellung zur Geschichte von Vorurteilen, Klischees und Ressentiments entlang der Fragen: Wie entstehen und wie verandern sich Vorurteile, Ressentiments und Stereotype? Welche Feindbilder pragen die europaische Geschichte? Und wie entwickeln sich daraus Ausgrenzung und Gewalt? Wolfgang Benz erklart Geschichte und Gegenwart eines hochst problematischen und hartnackigen Phanomens. Ein Buch von groater Aktualitat in Zeiten des wachsenden Extremismus weltweit und ein Standardwerk zur Geschichte von Antisemitismus, Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit.

La riflessione sul tramonto di un'era, l'era del testimone della Shoah, ha conosciuto un notevole e per certi versi inatteso sviluppo, che ha posto fine a una stagione durata circa mezzo secolo. > Il volume nasce dall'esigenza di ridefinire i limiti delle narrazioni della deportazione e persecuzione razziale in un quadro comparativo europeo, con uno sguardo sui modi della rappresentazione oltreoceano e in Israele. Abbiamo tentato di aprire qualche finestra sui modi attraverso i quali la narrazione della Shoah e cambiata o sta cambiando, mossi dal desiderio di procedere per comparazioni fra diverse metodologie, ma anche fra diversi contesti nazionali. > Nel Dizionario dei luoghi comuni di Flaubert alla voce Ebraico corrisponde un lemma nel quale si riflette un pregiudizio ancora diffuso ai nostri giorni: E ebraico tutto quello che non si capisce. Auspichiamo che i contributi raccolti in questo volume aiutino a sconfiggere questo radicato luogo comune. >

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This well-illustrated, highly accessible book at last gives general readers and students a compact, yet comprehensive and authoritative history of the twelve years of the Third Reich - from political takeover of January 30, 1933 to the German capitulation of May 1945. Originally published to rave reviews in Germany, "A Concise History of the Third Reich" describes the establishment of the totalitarian dictatorship, the domestic and foreign politics of the regime, everyday life and terror in National Socialist Germany, the events leading to World War II and the war itself, various forms of resistance against Hitler, and the Holocaust. The book's extensive illustrations are thoroughly treated as documents that illuminate the visual power of Nazi ideology.

Gibt es einen neuen Antisemitismus in Deutschland und Europa? Wieviel Israelkritik ist hierzulande erlaubt? Agitiert die islamistische Propaganda mit rassistischen Feindbildern gegen Juden, wie es früher die Nationalsozialisten taten? Und vor allem: Was genau ist Antisemitismus überhaupt? In der Beantwortung dieser Fragen geht Wolfgang Benz ganz und gar nicht akademisch vor, sondern analysiert konkrete Vorfälle wie etwa die Affäre Hohmann, den Streit um Jürgen Möllemann oder auch die zahlreichen Briefe, die in den letzten Jahren beim Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland eingegangen sind. Im Vordergrund steht nicht der plumpe und offenkundige Antisemitismus, wie er etwa in Friedhofsschändungen oder Hetzparolen zum Ausdruck kommt, sondern vielmehr jene häufig anzutreffende Haltung, die jede Judenfeindschaft empört von sich weist und dabei zugleich geprägt ist von antisemitischen Stereotypen, Klischees und Geschichtsklitterungen. Abschließend erörtert Benz auf der Grundlage zahlreicher aktueller Befunde, welche Bedeutung der Antisemitismus ein halbes Jahrhundert nach dem Holocaust heute hat.

This work contains two narratives which together offer a portrait of how two German Jews came to terms with the changes in their lives brought on by the Nazis. A study of the destruction of culture and humanity, morality and justice, and the morale of every population in Hitler's Germany. Erich Leyens, a decorated World War I hero who openly protested against the arrival of the Nazis in his hometown, reflects here on his five years of direct experience with the Nazis, exploring how the pressures of an authoritarian system destroy human relationships and compromise values, and how the masses of Germans became disposed to submit unconditionally to the Hitler cult. In contrast, Lotte Andor's memoirs focuses on the comical, even absurd side of her experience as an exile. For Andor, whose promising career as a stage actress was abrubtly ended by the Nazis, her emigration from Germany in 1934 brought not only apprehension, pain and uncertainty, but also sometimees unusual joy.

Fewer than half of all the German Jews, who were discriminated against, persecuted, and eventually murdered by the Nazis, were able to save themselves by fleeing abroad. Sadly, a large number, deeply rooted in German culture, were unwilling or unable to emigrate; after ""Kristallnacht"", the pogrom of 1938, the bureaucratic and financial obstacles to emigration became nearly insurmountable. This is the story of one family's desperate attempts to emigrate from Hitler's Germany. The Fruhaufs experienced endless bureaucratic chicanery and faced enormous difficulties with the German and foreign authorities and government agencies in their efforts to take advantage of matriarch Hilda Fruhauf's us citizenship. At the mercy of the greed of various agencies and shippers, they became more and more entangled in ""a labyrinth of red tape"". The Fruhaufs' daughter was forced into hiding in 1943, fleeing from the Nazis to Belgium, where she was given protection by the Resistance. Miraculously, she survived. The remaining members of her immediate family were unable to secure permission to emigrate, and were killed by the Nazis. This story, first published in Germany as part of S. Fischer Verlag's Lebensbilder (Portraits of Jewish Lives) series, is an account of a family fighting desperately for their lives and a testament to their courage and fortitude. Armin Schmid was born in Munich in 1926. His essays and articles have appeared in various journals and newspapers. Renate Schmid was born in Schweinfurt, Germany in 1925, and has worked in journalism and as an editor. The Schmids have collaborated on five works of non-fiction. Margot Bettauer Dembo is an editor with the American Museum of Natural History who has translated works by Robert Gernhardt, Herta M!ller, and Hans-Joachim Maaz. Wolfgang Benz is the Director of The Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism in Berlin. This book is intended for students and researchers in 20th-century German history and Holocaust studies.