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RACE AND SPIRITUALITY: ARTHUR DINTER'S THEOSOPHICAL ANTISEMITISM

*Kansas State University Kansas
Fort Leavenworth Kansas
Arthur Dinter was the leading Nazi spokesman on antisemitism in the early 1920s His immensely popular novel The Sin Against the Blood (1918) presented a demonic picture of the Jew He thought to create a new Germanic form of Christianity, cleansed of all Jewish influence, which involved a complete rejection of the Old Testament, as well as the aryanization of Jesus. His religious activities led to a conflict with Hitler and resulted in his being thrown out of the Nazi party and silenced Though opposed to a physical solution of the Jewish question he was decisive in defining the Nazi image of the Jew.