Anti-Semitism in German geography 1900–1945

Author: Kost K.

Source: GeoJournal, Volume 46, Number 4, 1998 , pp. 285-291(7)

Publisher: Springer

Abstract:

The number of Anti-Semitic opinions found in geographical and geopolitical literature gives evidence of a wide-spread hostility towards Jews before 1945. Only very few critical dissidents branded Anti-Semitism as propaganda of political rightists. The extent to which Anti-Semitism served as an ideological bridge between geography and geopolitics in Germany till 1945 must be established. But independent from geopolitics, there are lots of proof for an autochthonously developed Anti-Semitism among German university geographers long before geopolitics was created. All in all geopolitics had no innovative effect on the research and the theory of political geography in Germany till 1945. Its main topics, epistemological premises and methodological apparatus grew on the substratum of authochthonous traditions created in the 19th century. Geopolitics only takes up basic reflections that already exist.

Keywords: anti-semitism; geopolitics; history of geographical discipline; Jews

Language: English

Document Type: Regular paper

Affiliations: 1: Ostpreußenstr. 108, 45259 Essen, Germany

Publication date: 1998-01-01

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