COLONIALISM AND THE `JEWISH QUESTION’: HANNAH ARENDT AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN NS-LITERATURE
Journal Title: Δόξα / Докса. Збірник наукових праць з філософії та філології - Year 2015, Vol 1, Issue
Abstract
In his notorious autobiography and political manifest Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler raged against the so called “Black disgrace” (“Schwarze Schande”), referring to the so called Rhineland Bastards. These were derogatory terms used to describe Afro- German children of mixed German and African parentage. Allegedly most of them were fathered by Africans serving as French colonial troops occupying the Rhineland after World War I. According to Hitler, they represented a contamination of the white race ‘by Negro blood on the Rhine in the heart of Europe’. In reality, most of these children were actually fathered by white German colonialists who had brought their African families back home from the colonies, which Germany had lost after World War I. But Hitler had another ready answer to this problem, claiming that the “Jews had been responsible for bringing Negroes into the Rhineland, with the ultimate idea of bastardizing the white race which they hate and thus lowering its cultural and political level so that the Jew might dominate”: “Juden waren es und sind es, die den Neger an den Rhein bringen, immer mit dem gleichen Hintergedanken und klaren Ziele, durch die dadurch zwangslüfig eintretende Bastardisierung die ihnen verhaßte weiße Rasse zu zerstören, von ihrer kulturellen und politischen Höhe zu stürzen und selber zu ihren Herren aufzusteigen.” (Hitler 1940: 357).
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Torgeir SKORGEN
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