Ethnocentrism, antisemitism Ernst Moritz Arndt
arndt s writing desk, stralsund
these ideas led arndt generate anti-french propaganda during napoleonic conquest of german states:
when hate french carelessness, despise french daintiness, disapprove of french loquacity , flightiness, may pronounce flaw, flaw share people. likewise hate english presumption, english prudery, english seclusiveness. these hated, despised, dispraised characteristics not yet vices such, peoples represent may come great virtues , people lacking. therefore ... let hate our frenchmen, infamizers , destroyers of our power , virginity, more, feel how weaken , enervate our virtue , strength.
arndt prejudiced against poles , other slavs, , published anti-polish pamphlet in 1831 in castigated polish barbarity , wildness . during liberal revolution of 1848, when issue of reviving polish state raised in frankfurt, arndt declared tribes of slavs , wends have never done or been able lasting respect state, science, or art, , concluded: @ outset assert world history pronounces judgment [that] poles , whole slavonic tribe inferior germans.
he warned of close contact judaism. warned of thousands [of jews] russian tyranny come upon more abounding poland – impure flood east . warned of jewish intellectual conspiracy, claiming jews had usurped half of literature.
arndt paired antisemitism anti-french views, calling french jewish people ( das judenvolk ), or refined bad jews ( verfeinerte schlechte juden ). in 1815 wrote of french: jews... call them again, not jewish lists , penny-pinching avarice, more because of jew-like sticking together.
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