German Politics and the Jews

This revisionist account challenges the view that anti-Semitism was imposed on a majority of moderate Germans following Hitler's rise to power. Anthony Kauders argues that the Weimar Republic was instrumental in changing people's attitudes towards the Jews. The author studies the common man's reaction to the "Jewish Question" in two towns, Dsseldorf and Nuremberg, between 1910 and 1933. In stressing the extent to which anti-Semitism found a receptive audience and gradually altered the terms of political debate, Dr Kauders makes a significant contribution to the history of anti-Semitism in Germany.