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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... liberal democracy , on the one hand , and the rejection of hatred of Jews , on the other . This change was a revolu- tionary moment in the democratiza- tion of the Federal Republic , as the language of liberalism merged with the spirit ...
... liberal position , the taboos which liberalism imposes , or ( if one wants to be dangerously provocative ) the cant of liberalism , may well be the necessary idiom of decency . That is my problem . " George Steiner , Totem and Taboo ...
... liberal democratic capitalism . We are cognizant of European integration , which bound West Germans into a wider , democratic fold . We are also and most insistently reminded of various efforts to come to terms with the Nazi past , so ...
... liberal democrats . What is more , many West Germans eventually became liberal democrats not only because capitalism bred individualism , but also because they took up the idea that safeguarding democracy involved an earnest reflection ...
... liberal democratic values by Jews and Americans , then , more often than not implied an effort to allude to the ... liberalism , various impediments notwithstanding . The second and third goals complement each other . The question of ...
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 |