Racism - A Short History - George M Fredrickson.pdf - WNLibrary

For Hitler, as for secular antisemites since the time of
Marr and Dühring, Jews (like Germans) were ultimately
defined not by religion or ethnicity but by biological race.
But Hitler managed to synthesize the mystical tradition of
völkisch nationalism with the new scientific racism inspired
by the eugenics movement. He and his disciples also transcended
the antimodernism of early antisemitic thinkers by
embracing advanced technology when it was in the service
of the German Volksgeist and not the Jewish “money
power.” This was the ideology that Jeffrey Herf has aptly
called “reactionary modernism.” 30 But Hitler’s image of the
Jew also included a strong whiff of the ancient folk tradition
that imagined Jews to be minions of the Devil. They were
not merely biologically unfit but incurably malevolent; the
evil they represented was as much of the soul as of the
body. 31
In a famous passage Hitler revealed the following
nightmare vision:
With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish
youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom
he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her
people. With every means he seeks to destroy the racial
foundations of the people he has set out to subjugate.
Just as he himself systematically ruins women,
he does not shrink from pulling down the blood barriers
for others, even on a large scale. It was and it is
Jews who bring the Negroes into the Rhineland, always
with the same secret thought and clear aim of
ruining the hated white race by the necessarily resulting
bastardization, throwing it down from its
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