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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... Germany , Munich 1945-65 , " German History 18 , no . 4 ( 2000 ) : 461-84 . Indiana University Press , for excerpts from Anthony D. Kauders , " History as Censure : ' Repression ' and ' Philosemitism ' in Postwar Germany , " History and ...
... Germany , followed by the subsequent occupation of the country by Allied troops , was the sine qua non of democratic ... Germany's first democracy . ' Together with the catastrophe of Stalingrad in 1943 , which had occasioned the first ...
... Germany , however , led to the " loss of a narcissistic object and therefore to Ich- or Selbstverarmung and -entwertung ( the impov- erishment and devaluation of the ego ) . " In other words , Germans after 1945 suffered from the ...
... Germany's political culture began to whitewash antisemitism whenever the ordained , democratic , anti - Nazi character of the Republic was questioned . Philosemitism provided clear moral legitimization for the Conservative era of ...
... Germany's foreign policy and international image . » 82 A more recent contribution , finally , has summed up this instrumentalization as a " utilitarian Realpolitik , as the gesinnungsethisch moral imperative of ' pro- Jewishness ...
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 |