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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... human being is precious in his own right and is always to be regarded as an end , never as a means merely .... The State is made for man , not man for the State .... Democracy means freedom : All men should participate actively in ...
... rejoiced in the sight of humans on cattle trains , or " minded their own business , " were responsible for the Holocaust . Put differently , the moral injunction elucidated in this view corresponds to the claim that 14 Anthony D. Kauders.
... human beings ? " 9 Moreover , this interplay between leading a " middle - class " existence and retaining anti - Jewish stereotypes , between thought and action , has always been the most difficult to gauge , whether with regard to the ...
... human beings.62 We would also have to ask whether now that the Federal Republic has come to comprehend fully the enormity of National Socialist savagery , most Germans have learned to mourn properly , or whether experiencing neither ...
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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 |