Die Politik Kaiser Karls und der Wendepunkt des Weltkrieges
The Politics of Emperor Charles and the Turning Point of the World War

Author(s): Richard Fester
Subject(s): Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Keywords: World War I; Austrian History;
Summary/Abstract: During the First World War (1914-1918) Fester took a lead in fund raising, as a result of which he was awarded the Merit Cross for War Aid (Verdienstkreuz für Kriegshilfe).[2] He also became, between 1917 and 1918, a member of the short-lived nationalist German Fatherland Party (Deutsche Vaterlandspartei / DVLP).[5] In 1925 Fester drew widespread attention to himself in the context of the Munich "Stab in the back" trial by accusing the Social Democratic movement of treason. // After 1935 Fester emerged from retirement to work at the antisemitic National Institute for the History of the New Germany ("Reichsinstitut für Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands"),[6] serving on the institute's "Committee of Experts". Here he issued various antisemitic speeches and essays, such as one describing Judaism as a "Ferment of National Decomposition" (Ferment der nationalen Dekomposition, 1940) and as a "Destructive element of the Nation" (Zersetzungselement der Völker, 1941) [WIKIPEDIA] BOOK PUBLISHED IN 1925 byJ. F. Lehmanns Verlag, Munich (printed in German FRAKTURA font)

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