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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... crimes , terminating these crimes , and democratization " ; or , the " judicial , personal , and historical " effort to overcome the past . " Emphasis has also been placed on how rather than on " whether and , if so , how much ...
... crimes . We will also learn further below that continuity and discontinuity in German antisemitism need not be associated with interpretations along the lines of " philosemitism " or " repression , " both of which rely on dubious ...
... crimes that had been committed between 1933 and 1945. This failure was due to " repression . " The authors thus conflate affective disorders ( " repression " ) with ethical judgment ( the requirement for shame ) .51 9954 Let us consider ...
... crimes punishable by law , opposing as they did " disproportionate Jewish influence " before and after 1933 , but never actually inflicting physical harm on human beings ? " 9 Moreover , this interplay between leading a " middle - class ...
... crime in history , whose realization they did not prevent , or whether their memory was saturated with a past that had very little to do with the fate of the Jews . What is more , even if we acknowledge that this form of " repression ...
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 |