Johannes Rogalla von Bieberstein, "Jewish Bolshevism. Myth and reality, Dresden, Antaeus Edition, 2002, 312 p., € 29,00.
left. "Rivista di letteratura e cultura tedesca 5 (2005) [2006], p. 131 f.
Very nice theme, the revolution and the Jews," Gustav Landauer said in a letter to Martin Buber. By the anarchist philosopher, son of a Jewish merchant, to the "people's representatives" of the Munich Soviet Republic could choose, it should even continue this topic. In December 1918 not to foresee, however, was how John Rogalla deal by Bieberstein with him would.
The book librarian of Bielefeld in Germany for a short time caused a stir because of a CDU member of parliament had taken from him quote material. The wayward Martin Hohmann's speech for what he called "National Day" on 3 October 2003, was a repudiation of his group. Also Johannes Rogalla von Bieberstein was critical questions to answer. Compared to the Neue Westfälische he said, "of" Jews as perpetrators of the people he had not written. He could "not control if they" right circles "served with him.
This attempt at justification seems strange, given the the book preceding Thanksgiving, the "Prof. Dr. Ernst Nolte, for his foreword and Dr. Karlheinz Weissmann for reading of the manuscript" is. The latter is probably the most active organizer of a Nouvelle droite à l'anglaise, the former one of his main backers. Would it Rogalla been of Bieberstein a concern to protect itself against possible attempts made by this side, he had his study is not just a publishing company entrusted, in addition to Nolte and white man the Swiss historian of the "conservative revolution" Armin Mohler, and the prominent 68 Bernd-renegade Rabehl one of its authors.
Nolte has before Hohmann against the alleged "common opposition of today, people of perpetrators' and victims' people '," turned, and he has before Rogalla von Bieberstein from the "rational core of the speech" spoke of "Jewish Bolshevism." This follows him at his word when he moved in the last chapter of his study, the résumé, the anti-Semitic propaganda of the 20th Century was "a real historical foundation, a real 'core'," possessed (p. 282). Nolte takes it to naturally grateful. In his preface states Rogalla von Bieberstein approve the Jew-haters "a certain amount of law" (p. 3). The comments Nolte culminate in the indictment, the unnamed made permanent "philo", the "degradation of a world-historical people" guilty (p. 10).
Rogalla von Bieberstein is "appreciation" in contrast to the detailed listing of all of the protagonists of the socialist movement, which were of Jewish descent. The filing cabinets are stuffed full of Bielefeld librarian. The individual maps contain various data on individual lives and of course the resolution of the many pseudonyms (= Trotsky Bronstein, to name the best known). to make from the resulting in years of work collecting a readable representation was undoubtedly a difficult Task. The forces of the author has overwhelmed her, and then presented his study on long distances as a kind of remake of the anti-Semitic Semi-furrier in non-alphabetical order.
It is understood that secures Rogalla von Bieberstein precaution against the charge of anti-Semitism. He dedicates his book to the memory of Léon Poliakovs, whom he describes as his "long-term advisors," and he boasts of his acquaintance with Yehuda Bauer. In longer passages about the "author as a Christian, tracker and Documentary" (p. 36) he describes himself and his pure intentions. This he may "at pensive Go over the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau "(ibid.) have assured, and sometimes they seem to come to the fore. It is said at one point: "Of course we must the item featured Jewish not evaluate revolutionaries as paid agents, and certainly not as agents of not at all as a political unity of action existing Judaism, which assumed anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists" (p. 155)
Konspirationsphantasien treated. the author already in his thesis well worth reading, The thesis of the conspiracy in 1776 -1945. Philosophers, Freemasons, Jews, liberals and socialists as a conspirator against the social order (Frankfurt a. M. 1976). He followed it with some meticulously the development and transmission of the legend according to which the French Revolution was a staged roll-over of Freemasons. Known, believed influential Nazis, especially Himmler and Rosenberg, to the truth of this legend as well as to the reality of a world Jewish conspiracy. Sometimes touched and united the two "myths", which allowed that the Illuminate Adam Weishaupt to a Jew, Marx and Lenin, in turn, are declared to be Freemasons. By Norman Cohn believes Rogalla von Bieberstein, that the anti-Jewish propaganda ultimately "catchy" as was the anti-Masonic (p. 278). In this respect includes he seamlessly from his earlier research.
The difference in the method is nevertheless evident. Although Rogalla von Bieberstein picked out in his dissertation, "that the conspiracy theory could be denied a relationship to reality is not always" (p. 167). But only now, guided by the history of hermeneutics Nolte, he systematically investigated by the "rational core" of the "myth". The result is already known: Many Socialists (its origin, not according to faith) Jews. That's neither socialism nor the invention of the Jewish Bolshevism to the Jewish atrocity. Any idea who is delusional in its exaggeration, has its grounds in reality. From their quantification can not simply be closed to the degree of cogency of the respective madness.
