The  history of an obsession
Subtitle: German Judeophobia and the Holocaust
By: Klaus P. Fischer.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
Subjects: Antisemitism -- Germany -- History; Antisemitism -- Psychological aspects -- History; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects; Stereotype (Psychology) -- Germany
Description: Klaus Fischer charts the tortured history of German-Jewish relations over a millennium, from migration and ghettoization in the Middle Ages to enlightenment and emancipation in the eighteenth century to varieties of anti-Jewish prejudices in the Second Reich to the rise of pathological Judeophobia in the years 1918 to 1933.

The aim of the book is to provide a historical explanation for this change in consciousness that began with a religious prejudice, moved to social and political discrimination, and ended up in annihilatory rage.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-511) and index.