Democratization and the Jews: Munich, 1945-1965Published for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism Democratization and the Jews explores the ways in which West Germans in Munich responded after 1945 to the Holocaust. Examining the political and religious discourse on the ?Jewish Question,? Anthony D. Kauders shows how men and women in the immediate postwar era employed antisemitic images from the Weimar Republic in order to distance themselves from the murderous policies of the Nazi regime. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, many people?and particularly Social Democrats and members of the churches, both Catholic and Protestant?began to repudiate antisemitism altogether, appreciating the connection between liberal democracy, on the one hand, and the rejection of hatred of Jews, on the other. This change was a revolutionary moment in the democratization of the Federal Republic, as the language of liberalism merged with the spirit of democracy. |
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... According to this analysis , as appropriated by a prominent exponent of " repression theory , " melancholia is an " arrested process in which the depressed and traumaticized self , locked in compulsive repetition , remains ...
... according to one's image ( Ebenbild ) and in the hope that it comport with one's personal fantasies . Hitler , in this reading , was chosen as the object best suited to represent the " ideal of greatness " ( Größenideal ) of subjects ...
... according to Aristotle , is experienced if " those who admire us , those whom we admire , those by whom we wish to be admired , those with whom we are competing , and those whose opinion of us we respect " think badly of us.53 Unlike ...
... According to one sophisticated analysis , identification with the group occurs when participation in many of its " characteristic activities " has become an important part of one's life ; when this participation is continual , and when ...
... according to this reading , philosemitism " may or may not lead to overt actions in various forms and degrees ... ; may or may not be consistent , depending on historical , social , political , or economic 18 Anthony D. Kauders.
Contents
History as Pedagogy Munichs Jewish Community after the War | 38 |
History as Memory Democracy and Antisemitism 19451949 | 65 |
History and Memory in the Economic Miracle Dormancy and Difference 19491957 | 137 |
History as Change Jews as Fellow Beings 19581965 | 201 |