ABSTRACT
The central role of anti-Semitism for fascism in Nazi Germany is well known: Jews were the absolute enemy in National Socialist ideology. In the 1930s, the longstanding rejection, devaluation and exclusion of Jews in Europe, and especially in Germany, offered ideal conditions to mobilize people for Shoah and a war of aggression, which is the reason that anti-Semitic crimes and the spread of anti-Semitic attitudes are still the focus of great attention today. This chapter deepens the empirical analysis of the spread of anti-Semitism in Germany, and explores in more detail how anti-Semitism emerges. It deals with its forms and the question of what role it plays in the authoritarian dynamic of modern society.
