This is more commonly referred to as xenophobia. The word xenophobia comes from the Greek words “xenos”, which is translated as stranger, and “phobos”, meaning fear, combined to mean fear of strangers. It is easy to find evidence of xenophobia rooted throughout the whole of German history. Not long after German reunification (1872), in 1881 Duehring wrote more negativity about jews in his essay “The Question of the Jew is a Question of Race”. In it, he argued exactly what the title implied in order to take advantage of the German people’s growing xenophobia, particularly towards races other than the so called “aryan” race. Furthermore, out of xenophobia and what he believed was science at the time, Duehring argues that Jews being another race made them fundamentally worse than an average German when he says that “in society there is never an instance in which the members of the Jewish religion are made completely equal” (Duehring [308]). Furthermore, he argues that “it is impossible that close contact [between Germans and Jews] will take effect without the constant realization that this infusion of Jewish qualities is incompatible with our best impulses”, as a way to show his belief that the fundamental differences between the races of a German and a Jew make them unable to
This is more commonly referred to as xenophobia. The word xenophobia comes from the Greek words “xenos”, which is translated as stranger, and “phobos”, meaning fear, combined to mean fear of strangers. It is easy to find evidence of xenophobia rooted throughout the whole of German history. Not long after German reunification (1872), in 1881 Duehring wrote more negativity about jews in his essay “The Question of the Jew is a Question of Race”. In it, he argued exactly what the title implied in order to take advantage of the German people’s growing xenophobia, particularly towards races other than the so called “aryan” race. Furthermore, out of xenophobia and what he believed was science at the time, Duehring argues that Jews being another race made them fundamentally worse than an average German when he says that “in society there is never an instance in which the members of the Jewish religion are made completely equal” (Duehring [308]). Furthermore, he argues that “it is impossible that close contact [between Germans and Jews] will take effect without the constant realization that this infusion of Jewish qualities is incompatible with our best impulses”, as a way to show his belief that the fundamental differences between the races of a German and a Jew make them unable to