When the Wiener Library in London, which specializes in researching anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, received an offer to accept the royalties from the English-language edition of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” as a donation from an international publisher, a heated discussion broke out. The majority of the members of the board were against accepting this donation. Peter GJ Pulzer, author of the classic study on “The emergence of political anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria 1867 – 1914”, had a decidedly different opinion: Why, he asked, shouldn’t the Wiener Library, which was constantly suffering from a lack of money, take the money? And he added: What could have annoyed Adolf Hitler more than that a Jewish research institute dedicated to combating anti-Semitism would make a living from his book? Peter Pulzer, who, as Professor of Government and Public Administration at the renowned All Souls College in Oxford, held one of the most important English chairs and he, who had barely escaped Hitler with his family from Vienna in February 1939, also thought: The book was really not particularly convincing. And there really are enough convincing arguments available to refute it at any time. Unfortunately, that should be enough.
Anti-Semitism researcher Peter Pulzer is dead: Against the current – culture
