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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... December 1951 how Henry Morgenthau's policies had depleted Germany's funds and had thereby made restitution a much more formidable task . That being not enough , he also opined that " everything the German people had done to the Jews ...
... December 1965 ; and " Unerfüllte Hoffnungen : Ein politischer Rückblick auf das Jahr 1965 , " AWJ , 21 December 1965. See also chapter 1 for voices from within Munich's Jewish community . 25. Josef Foschepoth , Im Schatten der ...
... ( December 1995 ) : 4-33 ; and Werner Bergmann , Antisemitismus in öffentlichen Konflikten : Kollektives Lernen in der politischen Kultur der Bundesrepublik 1949-1989 ( Frankfurt 1997 ) , 86ff . 36. Dominick La Capra , History and Memory ...
... December 1999 , 58 . 75. An exception is the book by Hilary and William Rubinstein , Philosemitism ( n . 68 above ) , especially 137. It seems far - fetched to maintain that the " true " philosemites depicted in this work could only ...
... December 1951 , 13 January 1952 , 15 July 1954 , 10 February 1955 , 17 January 1958. See also Y. Michal Bodemann , Gedächtnistheater : Die jüdische Gemeinschaft und ihre deutsche Erfindung ( Hamburg 1996 ) , 129-30 . 87. On Adenauer's ...
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 |