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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... democracy , on the one hand , and the rejection of hatred of Jews , on the other . This change was a revolu- tionary moment in the democratiza- tion of the Federal Republic , as the language of liberalism merged with the spirit of ...
... Democracy and Antisemitism , 1945–1949 65 65 History and Memory in the Economic Miracle : 3 . 137 Dormancy and Difference , 1949-1957 4 . History as Change : Jews as Fellow Beings , 1958-1965 201 5. Conclusion : Antisemitism ...
... democracy in West Germany emerged not only as a consequence of Allied intervention , economic freedom , and student protests , but also out of the growing awareness that the Shoah should be treated as the gravest of possible assaults on ...
... democracy , " 3 so much so that it was only " reasonable ” and “ advantageous " for Germans to have " opt [ ed ] for democracy . " We might call this first explanation for democratization the structural one . " The second explanation ...
... democracy could be trusted . And since most 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 ...
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 |