Nazi Judeocide was inseparable from the regime’s anticommunist mission

Evidence

For another, the exclusive emphasis on anti-Semitism ignores and politically neutralizes its other constitutive feature in the Nazi period: namely, anticommunism. That the very possibility of the Judeocide was absolutely at one with and inseparable from the anticommunist and radical right-wing mission of National Socialism is the burden of Arno J. Mayer’s conclusive new history, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 564

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth checking Mayer’s thesis; Jameson states it as ‘conclusive’ but it’s a contested historiographical claim.
• SHARE: For anyone interested in Holocaust historiography or the DeMan affair.
• XREF: connects to: Antisemitism acted as a catalyst for Nazi rule, world war, and genocide
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Antisemitism acted as a catalyst for Nazi rule, world war, and genocide