Research Catalog

Title

Curt Prüfer, German diplomat from the Kaiser to Hitler / Donald M. McKale.

Author

McKale, Donald M., 1943-

Publication

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mazal Holocaust Collection TxSaTAM

Description

xvi, 274 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Examines the diplomatic career of Curt Prüfer (1881-1959), showing how the pre-World War I generation of German bureaucrats, with its nationalist and antisemitic attitudes, continued to function after the war, eventually giving Nazism support and a cloak of respectability. Based on Prüfer's diaries, demonstrates how his antisemitism and work in the Arab world opposed him to Zionism. His antisemitism drew on stereotypes rather than racial theory. He blamed the Jews for the defeat of 1918, despising them for entering politics at that time. Prüfer's diary for 1942 records knowledge of the Holocaust and his sole concern that it might excite anti-German feeling. In 1943 he fled to Switzerland where, even after the war, his nationalism and antisemitism grew. He continued to admire Hitler and blamed the Holocaust on the SS. He accused the Allies of hypocrisy over the Holocaust as they had done nothing to stop it when they could.

Subject

• Prüfer, Curt Max, 1881-
• Prüfer, Curt Max, 1881-1959
• BMBF-Statusseminar
• 1900-1999
• Diplomats > Germany > Biography
• Germany > Foreign relations > Middle East
• Middle East > Foreign relations > Germany
• Germany > Foreign relations > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Biographie.
• Biographies

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [243]-261.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0873383451 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^87004114^

OCLC

• 15222255
• SCSB-12158414

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library