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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... 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 saying so , the subject of democratization often turns on ...
... former National Socialists , West German democracy was spared possible civil war and succeeded in reconciling millions with the democratic form of government19 ; and the contention that , by failing to weed out thoroughly all Nazi ...
... former refers to the fact that " the author is saying or writing something : putting forward words , sentences , arguments , theories and so on with a certain ' locutionary ' or ' propositional ' meaning ( with ... sense and reference ) ...
... former concentration camp Dachau and numerous DP camps in its vicinity , Munich's population was directly faced with the past , so that " repression " or ignorance was hardly viable and conscious responses to the events surrounding the ...
... former approach embraces the Kantian obsession with " duty " and intention , rejecting attempts at associating " philosemitism " with philosophical consequentialism ( or utilitarianism ) , the latter is all the more intent on showing ...
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 |