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The author of the essay, Uriel Tal, discusses how the Nazi regime used religion to control the population and how they turned concepts such as race, blood, soil, state, nation, and Fuhrer into religious concepts. The author also discusses how the Nazis viewed the Jew as the enemy and how they used religion to control the population.
In a perceptive analysis of diverse source material, the essays of the late Uriel Tal in this volume uncover the dynamics of the secularization of religion, and the sacralization of politics in the Nazi era. Through a process of inversion of meaning, concepts such as race, blood, soil, state, nation and Fuhrer were brought into the realm of faith, mission, salvation, sacredness and myth, thereby acquiring absolute significance. Within this Nazi worldview, the Jew epitomised the arch enemy, both as a symbol and as the concrete embodiment of all that Nazism sought to negate: Western civilisation, monotheism, critical rationalism and humanism.
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