Jüdischer Bolschewismus : Mythos und Realität

Argues that the identification of Jews with the Bolshevik Revolution and with terror was the cause of a new type of antisemitism, political rather than racist, in the 1920s-40s, and this had a realistic kernel. Although only a minority of Jews were drawn by antisemitic persecution to socialism and communism, there they formed a highly visible and disproportionate part of the leadership. Enumerates the prominent Jews in the Russian Revolution, the Hungarian and Munich Soviet republics, the Politburo, the Comintern, the Cheka, the anti-religious campaign in the USSR, the extermination of the Ukrainian peasantry, and the communist parties worldwide. For radical antisemites, this was evidence of a Jewish-Bolshevik world conspiracy. Quotes many, chiefly Jewish, contemporary observers and later historians who discerned the danger in this situation which most people nowadays prefer to ignore. Argues that Hitler's ideology and Nazi propaganda were primarily directed against the hated and feared Bolsheviks, but the identification between them and the Jews justified the murder of all Jews regardless of their political orientation. Pp. 3-10 contain Nolte's introduction. Includes bibliographical references and index. 311, viii pages : illustrations ; 21 cm