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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... National Socialist Crimes ) in Ludwigsburg ; in 1961 , following the events surrounding Adolf Eichmann's abduction from Argentina and his subsequent trial in Israel ; in 1963 , after the commencement of the Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt ...
... National Socialist past , in which Jews and Jewish influence were subjected to condemnation ; and that this language , in intimating a distinction between justified beliefs and unjustified acts , was an attempt at dissociating oneself ...
... National Socialist movement , it presents sufficient material to examine how a city associated with antisemitism reacted to Jew - hatred after the war . Being predominantly Catholic , Munich's religious composition enables the historian ...
... national importance ( the Catholic Michael von Faulhaber and the Protestants Hans Meiser and Dietrich Langenfass ) ... National Socialist pasts.35 Those studies that elaborate on the theme usually infuse " Democratization and the Jews.
... National Socialism , had been put behind bars , many others were not at all ... Socialist savagery , most Germans have learned to mourn properly , or ... national identity , " or must we speak of psychic processes which still determine ...
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 |