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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... Third Reich , they strove for " intensely materialistic " goals which West German capitalism managed to satisfy.10 This explanation can be called the economic one . " 1 Related to this second interpretation is that of democratization ...
... Third Reich in literature , art , and the cinema , restitution ( Wiedergutmachung ) , or the different means of commemoration.17 Nevertheless , there remain two further questions which have been addressed in a rather cursory manner and ...
... Third Reich . Although most of the evidence , as conceded from the outset , is derived from " spontaneous observations " ( Spontanbeobachtungen ) whose nature suggests that " defense mechanisms against the Nazi past " characterized ...
... Third Reich , neither feeling could emerge ; third , most Germans satisfied their " infantile delusions of grandeur " ( infantilen Omnipotenzphantasien ) by linking their fate to that of Hitler , who served as their ego - Ersatz and 12 ...
... Third Reich , including this one , indicate that there was a lively discourse on National Socialism and the Second World War , both in the popular media and in political debate.50 If " repression " was at work , therefore , we need to ...
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 |