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From prejudice to persecution: a history of Austrian anti-semitism

Book information

Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0807819956, 9780807819951
LCC
DS146.A9 P38 1992
Google Books ID
6cJtAAAAMAAJ
Open Library ID
OL1566308M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1833609 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler's Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley's book explains this phenomenon by providing a history of Austrian anti-Semitism and Jewish responses to it from the Middle Ages to the present, with a particular focus on the period from 1914 to 1938. In contrast to works that view anti-Semitism as an inherent national characteristic, his account identifies many sources and varieties of the anti-Semitic sentiment that pervaded Austrian society on the eve of the Holocaust.

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