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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... means to secure the effectiveness of the new state . If it was to succeed , this view maintains , the Federal Republic had to win over the hearts of the populace by attending to its need for order and stability.12 Especially in the ...
... means of commemoration.17 Nevertheless , there remain two further questions which have been addressed in a rather cursory manner and which will figure prominently in the course of this work : first , when did the quality of ...
... means personal worth : Every 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 ...
... mean ? ) , in which he recounted the " repression of the known or half - known " amongst Germans and offered a somewhat ... means that would establish a correspondence , within one's own mind , between the past and current narcissistic ...
... means the mass murder of the Jews and other victims of National Socialism , it would appear that two additional assumptions underlie these arguments : first , the supposition that Jews , Sinti and Roma , Poles , and others were part 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 |