Claudia Bruns (2011) - Toward a Transnational History of Racism
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Chapter 6 - Toward a Transnational History of Racism: Wilhelm Marr and the Interrelationships between Colonial Racism and German Anti-Semitism (pp. 122-139)For obvious reasons, research on racism in Germany has traditionally focused on anti-Semitism in general and the Holocaust in particular. Historians tended to explain German anti-Semitism as part of the country’s separate path, orsonderweg, toward nationhood in the nineteenth century.¹ According to Christian Geulen, anti-Semitism in Germany represented a central “medium in the process of bourgeois-national self-understanding.”² Despite a few attempts to go beyond this nation-centered perspective by comparing racist atrocities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, the German public as well as German historians tended to be skeptical of such endeavors. Above all, critics charged that historical...
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