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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... importance of democratic consciousness beyond utility , efficiency , and pragmatic acquiescence , but also a heightened concern with the " democratic mind . " 15 Vergangenheitsbewältigung has been broadly defined as facing the ...
... importance of distinguishing between so - called Ostjuden and German Jews ( einheimische or alteingesessene Juden ) . His intention may in turn be gleaned from the context of his speech : a party meeting , an interview with American ...
... importance ( the Catholic Michael von Faulhaber and the Protestants Hans Meiser and Dietrich Langenfass ) , all of ... important role in discussions of West German efforts to confront the past . The first , repression , can be found in ...
... important respect , however . While the sociologist stipulated cognizance of the truth , that is , suggested that most Germans " knew " what anyone else could see with equal clarity , the psychoanalysts submitted that an unconscious ...
... important part of one's life ; when this participation is continual , and when , in consequence of this enduring identification , one member " performs a particular characteristic action in a particular situation and the action conforms ...
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 |