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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... murder of millions . Third , it addresses the problem of continuity and discontinuity in German antisemitism before and after Hitler . And fourth , it attempts to discuss the delicate issue of collective as opposed to individual ...
... murder , while for the second it did so in equal measure , in keeping with ideals that had come to pervade U.S. society long before the advent of Hitler.27 For a third group , namely the vast majority of West Germans , this attitude ...
... antisemitism reacted to Jew - hatred after the war . Being predominantly Catholic , Munich's religious composition enables the historian to look at the way in which Church leaders explained the murder of the 8 Anthony D. Kauders.
Munich, 1945-1965 Anthony Kauders. way in which Church leaders explained the murder of the Jews , establishing possible differences between the majority denomination and its Protestant counterpart . Similarly , three Christian leaders of ...
... murder under National Socialism , even though shame ought to have pervaded German society.46 The Mitscherlichs ' main argument , however , is related to Freud's Trauer und Melancholie . Hence the loss which occasions melancholia ...
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 |