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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... officials . When in April 1950 one Benjamin Sagalowitz reported to the World Jewish Congress that " perhaps the gravest handicap for the safeguarding and consolidation of the young German democracy ... may be found in the widespread ...
... officials make use of the " Definition of Democracy " taken from the March 1947 edition of Life magazine , which comprised the following points ( note that the ones reproduced here were the first four to be mentioned ) : Democracy means ...
... officials , or protests against Veit Harlan movies , or antisemitic incidents , or accusations against West German politicians with National Socialist pasts.35 Those studies that elaborate on the theme usually infuse " Democratization ...
... officials Germans should show an emphatically and demonstrative pro - Jewish attitude " and as the " political instrumentalization of pro - Jewish attitudes and norms ... , in particular concerning Germany's foreign policy and ...
... officials in the late 1950s and early 1960s ( Einsatzgruppen in 1958 , Eichmann in 1961 , and Auschwitz in 1963 ) brought about a change in attitudes towards the past , see chapter 4 and Herf , Divided Memory ( n . 18 above ) , 268 ...
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 |