State financial needs overrode personal antisemitism in ruling officials.

Evidence

The urgencies compelling the ties between government business and the Jews may be gauged by those cases in which decidedly anti-Jewish officials had to carry out the policies. So Bismarck, in his youth, made a few antisemitic speeches only to become, as chancellor of the Reich, a close friend of Bleichroeder and a reliable protector of the Jews against Court Chaplain Stoecker’s antisemitic movement in Berlin. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1975

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete instance of the state’s structural dependence on Jewish financiers, central to the book’s thesis. — connects to: Public officials adopt financialization not from ideology but from state incapacities — Ève Chiapello, Financialisation of Valuation, 105