ERNST JUNGER'S POLEMIC WITH NATIONAL SOCIALISM DURING THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC

Abstract

The article examines the problems of political journalism of the German right in the years of the Weimar Republic as an example of the analysis of the place, interpretation and significance of the Jewish question in the creative heritage of Ernst Junger. In the conditions of post-war Germany, anti-Semitism acquired a political sound due to the fact that a significant percentage of German Jews were represented in the revolutionary government, the Social Democratic and radical left parties, who turned into the face of the Weimar Republic. Antisemitismus became an important domestic political component of the struggle against the Weimar political system, which allowed reducing political controversy to racial and national components. The unity and difference between the political journalism of the Nazis and E. Junger as the leader of the "new nationalism" is analyzed. The place of the Jewish question as a political problem is considered in the context of the nationalist ideas of the Weimar right. The study of the peculiarities of the understanding of Jewry in the ideas of E. Junger and its difference from the Nazi interpretation is being carried out. The desire of National Socialism to turn anti-Semitism into one of the structural components of ideology and political journalism made it possible to group political opponents into a single racially defined whole and concentrate the entire range of political means of struggle against it. The political divergence of E. Junger and National Socialism was based in addition to political divergences and on the fact that the place of the Jewish question in his ideas did not occupy any significant place, not in terms of ideological or personal.