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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... discussion of our theme . The liberal position , the taboos which liberalism imposes , or ( if one wants to be ... discuss the delicate issue of collective as opposed to individual responsibility after 1945 . The arguments advanced in ...
... discussion of Vergangenheitsbewältigung . Whereas the former have focused on the framework of democratic change , the latter has grappled with the content of democratic consciousness . Although most commentators usually refrain from ...
... discussion starts from the premise that " understanding any proposition ( of an antisemitic nature , for example ) requires us to identify the question to which the proposition may be regarded as an answer , " so that any " act of ...
... discussion of German and Jewish reactions to antisemitism and democracy will incorporate these ideas so as to explain , among other things , how conventions were upheld or re - evaluated in the early history of the Federal Republic ...
... discussions of antisemitism , confronted the population with their own ideas of what democratic rule entailed ... discussion , without thereby detracting from the weight accorded to other explanations . In many a work dealing with ...
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 |