German popular antisemitism was weaker than in several other European countries.

Evidence

Thanks to the thorough historical research conducted over the last decades, we know now that before the Nazi ascent to power, and long after the entrenchment of their rule over Germany, German popular antisemitism came a poor second to Jew-hatred in quite a few other European countries. Long before the Weimar Republic put the finishing touches to the long process of Jewish emancipation, Germany was widely conceived by international Jewry as the haven of religious and national equality and tolerance. Germany entered this century with many more Jewish academics and professionals than contemporary America or Britain. Popular resentment of Jews was neither deep-seated nor widespread. Hardly ever did it manifest itself in outbursts of public violence, so common in other parts of Europe. Nazi attempts to bring popular antisemitism to the surface by staging public spectacles of anti-Jewish violence proved counterproductive and had to be foiled. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 115

Categorization

• SHARE: For a scholar of genocide or antisemitism history — the Feingold ‘less distaste than the French’ claim is a striking counterintuitive data point.
• XREF: connects to: Popular hatred was insufficient to drive the Holocaust — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 212; Popular antisemitism contributed to the Holocaust chiefly through induced apathy. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 115; The Holocaust required neutralizing popular attitudes, not mobilizing them — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 522 (+1 more)

Related

• Popular antisemitism contributed to the Holocaust chiefly through induced apathy. (similarity 0.85)
• Popular hatred was insufficient to drive the Holocaust (similarity 0.84)
• Antisemitism was added to Pan-German program rather than foundational to it (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust required neutralizing popular attitudes, not mobilizing them (similarity 0.82)
• Intense Nazi indoctrination failed to override conventional, nonracial loyalties (similarity 0.81)
• Nazi ideology encompassed antisemitic views that blamed Germans rather than Jews (similarity 0.81)
• Antisemitism acted as a catalyst for Nazi rule, world war, and genocide (similarity 0.80)
• The commonsense antisemitism-explains-Holocaust causal link collapses under scrutiny. (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-semitic resentment declines steadily across German postwar generations (similarity 0.78)
• Traditional antisemitism negatively correlates with willingness to perpetrate genocide (similarity 0.78)
• Modern antisemitism is a learned theoretical product, not raw experience. (similarity 0.78)
• Holocaust perpetrators were ordinary citizens acting without personal anti-Jewish resentment. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Holocaust required neutralizing popular attitudes, not mobilizing them #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 522
• Popular hatred was insufficient to drive the Holocaust #corroborates (0.82) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 212
• Popular antisemitism contributed to the Holocaust chiefly through induced apathy. #expands (0.78) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 115