Nazi Germany and the Jews: 1933-1945

En 1942, la bibliothèque a été saisie par un corps expéditionnaire nazi sur ordre de l’idéologue du Parti national-socialiste, Alfred Rosenberg, fasciné par ce qu’il appelle le « problème Spinoza2 », à savoir : comment un juif a-t-il pu être un aussi grand génie pour influencer un géant tel que Goethe ?

It is in the same period that this dream of freedom turned into a nightmare, and Christian Europe awoke haunted by the conviction that it was becoming Jewish. The seeming contradiction within this coincidence is striking and worth investigating. Why is it that the fear of Judaizing reached a new peak in western Europe at precisely the moment when J

Many years later, a debate was sparked in post-war Germany over the ‘barbarization’ of soldiers on the Eastern Front.22 It was widely believed that the Wehrmacht, unlike the SS, had generally upheld the standards of good soldiering, and that ordinary German soldiers had not been guilty of serious atrocities. This myth was easily shown to be false.