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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... Frankfurt ; in the mid - 1960s , especially in the wake of debates in parliament on the statute of limitations for National Socialist crimes ; and in the late 1960s , after the onset of the student revolts . 18 It will be a central ...
... ( Frankfurt 1999 ) . 18. See , for example , Brochhagen , Nach Nürnberg , 223 ; Dubiel , Niemand ist frei von der Geschichte , 14 ; Jeffrey Herf , Divided Memory : The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys ( Cambridge , Mass . and London 1997 ) ...
... ( Frankfurt 1988 ) . 26. Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv München ( BHSTAM ) , OMGBY , Edu- cation and Cultural Relations Division , 10 / 49-2 / 11 . Similar draft proposals on democracy can be found in the same folder . See also Annette ...
... ( Frankfurt 1999 ) ; Jürgen Wilke , et al . , Holocaust und NS - Prozesse : Die Presseberichterstattung in Israel und Deutschland zwischen Abneigung und Abwehr ( Cologne , Vienna , and Weimar 1995 ) ; Thomas Wandres and Gerhard Werle ...
... ( Frankfurt 1997 ) , 32 . 38. Ibid . , 31 . 39. Ibid . , 39 . 40. Ibid . , 34 . 41. Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich , Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern : Mit einem Nachwort der Autoren zur unveränderten Neuausgabe ( Munich 1977 ) ...
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 |