The German advance party. Followers of German Jews

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The German advance party. Allegiance of German Jews was a national German association of Jewish Germans who had a positive attitude towards National Socialism . It was founded in February 1933 by the religious historian Hans-Joachim Schoeps and was forcibly dissolved in December 1935.

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For the historian Matthias Hambrock, the vanguard group was a “small, almost esoteric association” which “ consisted almost entirely of 'heads'” , as it was called in a Gestapo report ; it included "preferably young people of advanced age with academic and intellectual interests" . Hambrock classifies him in the youth movement .

The club's journal was Der Deutsche Vorrupp: Papers of a following of German Jews ; In it Schoeps wrote among other things: “National Socialism saves Germany from ruin; Germany is experiencing its national renewal today . ” He called for an “ acceleration of the absolutely necessary separation of German and non-German Jews as well as the registration of all German-conscious Jews under uniform authoritarian leadership while circumventing the old organizations as much as possible ” .

The Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Emigration after 1933 to 1945 , Part 2: "Politics, Economy, Public Life", is of the opinion that one of Schoeps' cousins, Heinz Georg (Salomon) Frank (1911 Berlin to 1967 Winnipeg), a lawyer, was also a member of the advance squad. In 1938 he published a pamphlet on Jewish education. In the same year he emigrated to Canada . He succeeded by deceiving the local authorities by pledging himself as a farmer, an activity that he nominally carried out from 1938 to 1943. In fact, however, he had no knowledge of agriculture. Later he was a busy functionary in various Canadian-Jewish associations.

See also

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Schoeps: Ready for Germany: The Patriotism of German Jews and National Socialism . Haude & Spener publishing house, 1970.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gudrun Maierhof: Self-Assertion in Chaos: Women in Jewish Self-Help 1933–1943. Campus Verlag, 2002, pp. 57, 114.
  2. ^ Matthias Hambrock: The establishment of the outsiders: the Association of national German Jews 1921-1935. Böhlau, 2003, p. 611.
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schoeps: Ready for Germany: The Patriotism of German Jews and National Socialism. Haude & Spener, 1970, pp. 106, 114