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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... Christian Social Union ( CSU ) linked the Jews with black marketeering , he was articulating a view that many other ... Socialist movement , it presents sufficient material to examine how a city associated with antisemitism reacted to ...
... Christian fold.70 This view , then , exhibits little concern for the consequences of philosemitism , focusing ... social , political , or economic 18 Anthony D. Kauders.
... Christian , Zionist , and conservative - elitist forms of sympathy but offers no substantial definition whatever ... Social Studies 3 ( 1996 ) : 28. Levenson largely concurs with Brenner's assessment . He , too , seems to suggest that ...
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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 |