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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... Holocaust . Examining the political and religious discourse on the " Jewish Question , " Anthony D. Kauders shows how men and women in the immedi- ate postwar era employed antisemitic images from the Weimar Republic in order to distance ...
... Holocaust . Second , it seeks to dispel the belief that psychic operations such as " repression " were at work in public reactions to the mass murder of millions . Third , it addresses the problem of continuity and discontinuity in ...
... Holocaust ) , and a healthy democracy . In fact , it could be argued that for the first group such an attitude came naturally in consequence of antisemitism and premeditated mass murder , while for the second it did so in equal measure ...
... Holocaust , popular support for the regime ) . In doing so , we will learn that many Germans felt that it was possible to employ language that alluded to a " benign , " non - National Socialist past , in which Jews and Jewish influence ...
... " a particular facet of the past , namely the Holocaust and other murderous features of the regime . Vergangenheitsbewältigung is here always the demand that Germans ought to have concentrated on the Democratization and the Jews 133.
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 |