The History Of An Obsession:

The History Of An Obsession: German Judeophobia... by Fischer, Klaus P. Hardback.

Isbn 0094790302
Signed and dated by author inside the cover.

This is an interesting and quite diverting study of the Holocaust in terms of what the author describes as a pathological, irrational fear of and prejudice toward Jews which he argues quite convincingly characterized the German people in the decades leading up to the Second World War. Rather than refer to this syndrome as a virulent form of anti-Semitism, he calls it "Judeophobia", maintaining it constitutes a culturally unique psychodynamic form of such prejudice and fear found most profoundly affecting the worldview and general attitudes of the Germans of the early 20th century. Of course, no other phenomenon in this century had been so psychologized as the Holocaust, yet one finds much to learn from this latest effort to understand how an otherwise culturally advanced and civilized society such as Germany could have participated....