Quote:
There is no German trading town that does not have many honorable, respectable Jewish companies; but it is indisputable that Semitism has a large share in the lies and deceit, in the cheeky greed of the founding malevolence, a grave complicity in that disgraceful materialism of our day, which regards every work only as business and stifles the old, leisurely enthusiasm for work of our people threatens; In thousands of German villages sits the Jew who sprawls out his neighbors.
Source:
Heinrich von Treitschke, Our prospects, Berlin 1879, 574
Author Bio:
Heinrich von Treitschke (1834-1896) gained fame as a historian and member of the Reichstag. He has published extensively on German history and social science issues.
Context:
In the essay “Our prospects” published by him in 1879, he denied the Jews any will to assimilate, attacked them as opponents of national unification and let the contribution culminate in the sentence later adopted by the Nazis: “The Jews are our misfortune”. Treitschke's contribution also triggered the Berlin anti-Semitism dispute, in which various historians debated the so-called “Jewish question”.
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Year:
1879