Boris Khavkin's Lecture within the Framework of the Seminar "West and East: Universalism of Culture"
On October 6, 2017, doctor of historical sciences, professor of the RSUH B.L. Khavkin delivered the lecture "Third Reich: How German children Were Turned into Anti-Semites".
The speaker emphasized that the exposure of fascism and national socialism presupposes a truthful, based on knowledge of sources, facts, events, a critical account of these ideological constructions, political theories and criminal practices.
For the national "blood purity" consolidation, the Nazis needed an "eternal enemy", in the fight against which, the rallying of the nation would take place. From the Middle Ages this role had traditionally been assigned to Jews. But unlike medieval religious anti-Semitism (f. i, Martin Luther's anti-Semitic pamphlets), Nazi anti-Semitism was racial.
The Jews as "racial enemies" were fenced off from the "German community" by hundreds of laws and orders implemented not only by convinced Nazis but also by most law-abiding ordinary Germans, as well as by officials, lawyers, police, the army, the press, the school, etc.
So gradually the way for the "final solution" of the Jewish question - the destruction of 6 million European Jews - by the Nazis was paved.