Expelling Jews passportless and penniless realized the Wandering Jew legend and exported Nazism abroad.
Evidence
In this respect, the prewar “solution” of the Jewish question was the outstanding export commodity of Nazi Germany: expulsion of Jews carried an important portion of Nazism into other countries; by forcing Jews to leave the Reich passportless and penniless, the legend of the Wandering Jew was realized, and by forcing the Jews into uncompromising hostility against them, the Nazis had created the pretext for taking a passionate interest in all nations’ domestic policies. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 931
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- SEED: Article angle: how forced statelessness functions as an ideological ‘export commodity’ that spreads the regime’s logic into other nations, paralleling contemporary asylum-policy outsourcing.
- XREF: Directly feeds statelessness/race-thinking concepts the reader is building — the passportless refugee as the realized myth that then justifies external intervention.