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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... für München Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Freie Demokratische Partei High Commissioner for Germany Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands Leo Baeck Institute Year Book Landesentschädigungsamt Münchner Jüdische ...
... für Christlich - Soziale Politik der Hanns - Seidel- Stiftung , Archiv des Deutschen Liberalismus der Friedrich - Naumann- Stiftung , Archiv des Erzbistums München und Freising , Archiv der Sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich - Ebert ...
... des Ansbacher Oberbürgermeisters an die Militärregierung 1946-1949 , " Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 31 ( 1983 ) : 341 . 8. Detlef Garbe , " Äußere Abkehr , Erinnerungsverweigerung und Democratization and the Jews 23.
... für deutsche Geschichte 19 ( 1990 ) : 352 . 10. Manfred J. Enssle , " Five Theses on German Everyday Life after World War II , " Central European History 1 ( 1993 ) : 14 . 11. See also Wolfgang Merkel , Systemtransformation : Eine ...
... für Deutschland : Adenauers Gegner - Streiter für Deutschland ( Frankfurt and Berlin , 1993 ) , 21. The most important proponent Democratization and the Jews 25.
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 |