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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... 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 immedi- ate ...
... question of Vergangenheitsbewältigung , one might argue , the less attention is paid to Realpolitik or economics . It follows that the recent emphasis on " coming to terms with the past " not only discloses a belief in the importance of ...
... question has seen numerous answers : after 1954 , when " genocide " ( Völkermord ) was incorporated into the country's criminal code , thereby alluding to an altered appreciation of the Nazi past ; in 1958 , in the aftermath of the Ulm ...
... question ' Who governs me ? ' is logically distinct from the question ' How far does government interfere with me ? " " 21 The dissension that has marked much of the debate , then , is partly due to distinct expectations of democratic ...
... question of continuity and discontinuity in German antisemitism takes up positions that have posited a new form of antisemitism after 1945 , one that was either related to the influx of displaced persons after the war , or to the ...
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 |