NP Willing Executioners?

[Otto]

I must have misunderstood Theweleit but in my impression he sees the 
fascist only as a special case of the "man"!

I'm not sure if German fascism wouldn't have worked also with *only* 
communists, gypsies, gays etc as scapegoats. As far as I know Hitler's 
anti-Semitism had some deep-rooted personal reasons.

Otto

Joel Katz wrote:

> of course otto, who is rational (and german) generally defends 
> goldhagen's thesis -- while a whole cadre of mos on this list rush 
> forth to defend shades of genocide.
>
> i don't even understand the problem:  clearly, the best scholars of 
> anti-semitism, from adorno to thewleit, have all insisted on the 
> centrality of killing jews as a functional element of the german 
> psyche and german national identity.  it is what made german fascism 
> operational.


	

	
		
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