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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... West Germans became liberal democrats in their appreciation of the magnitude ... German antisemitism before and after Hitler . And fourth , it attempts to ... West Germany emerged not only as a consequence of Allied intervention ...
... Germans had acquired a " mentality of scarcity " in the latter years of the Third Reich , they strove for " intensely materialistic " goals which West German capitalism managed to satisfy.10 This explanation can be called the economic ...
... West German democracy was spared possible civil war and succeeded in reconciling millions with the democratic form of government19 ; and the contention that , by failing to weed out thoroughly all Nazi influences in Germany society ...
... West Germans became democrats well before they became liberal democrats . What is more , many West Germans ... German democracy ... may be found in the widespread [ sic ] absence of a factor which might be described as " public conscience , » ...
... Germans democracy , " for example , recommended that U.S. officials make use of the ... West Germany , especially when the kinship between democracy and the ... German antisemitism takes up positions that have posited a new form of ...
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 |