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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... Economic Miracle : 3 . 137 Dormancy and Difference , 1949-1957 4 . History as Change : Jews as Fellow Beings , 1958-1965 201 5. Conclusion : Antisemitism , Responsibility , and Democracy 269 Bibliography 283 Index 319 List of ...
... 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 democratic society . This growing awareness , moreover , owed little or nothing to ...
... economic miracle ( Wirt- schaftswunder ) , which acquainted many with the benefits of liberal democratic capitalism ... economic liberalism with competition , competition with conflict , conflict with pluralism , and pluralism with ...
... economic success and the pursuit of happiness reinforced the conviction that 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 ...
... economic miracle ( Wirtschaftswunder ) . While it is true that many were forced to contend with diminished self - esteem as a result of military defeat and subsequent occupation , and that many , furthermore , were shocked to discover ...
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 |