How the Nazis Imagined a World Without Jews
How the Nazis Imagined a World Without Jews
July 23, 2015
TLV1 — BGU Prof. Alon Confino, a historian, speaks to TLV1 radio about his new book, A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide published by Yale University Press.
In the Nazis’ minds, the Jews were the source of all evil in the world.
This is the story the Nazis told themselves to justify their goal to eliminate Jews from not only the present and future, but also from the history of humanity and religion.
“Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938?,” asks Prof. Confino, referring to Kristallnacht, the night of the broken glass.
“They wanted to eradicate the Jewish origins of Christianity.”
In order to create a new civilization, the Nazis believed they had to eliminate the Jews and all references to the Jews, and even went as far as to change references to the line of David and Jesus’ religious roots in the New Testament.
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