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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... 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 ...
... Churches before and after Hitler , " Patterns of Prejudice 34 , no . 3 ( 2000 ) : 27-45 . Arnold , for excerpts from Anthony D. Kauders , " Catholics , the Jews and Democratization in Post - war Germany , Munich 1945-65 , " German ...
... churches , and other societal groups whose responses to the Nazi past were anything but uniform . The second question has frequently engendered two opposing views : the contention that , by pursuing a conciliatory course with regard to ...
... with antisemitism reacted to Jew - hatred after the war . Being predominantly Catholic , Munich's religious composition enables the historian to look at the way in which Church leaders explained the murder of the 8 Anthony D. Kauders.
Munich, 1945-1965 Anthony Kauders. way in which Church leaders explained the murder of the Jews , establishing possible differences between the majority denomination and its Protestant counterpart . Similarly , three Christian leaders of ...
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 |