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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... period of quiescence and stability after their emotionally exhausting and disastrous experience with a charismatic leader , " the combination of economic success and the pursuit of happiness reinforced the conviction that democracy ...
... period and concentrated on specific aspects of " coming to terms with the past , " such as political debates , trials of " war criminals , " treatments of the Third Reich in literature , art , and the cinema , restitution ...
... periods . Those who insist that the above reasoning is not post hoc , therefore , need to clarify their stand in four important respects : whether someone who opposes , in whatever fashion , his or Democratization and the Jews 15.
... scientists down the slippery slope of subjecting an entire historical period to a verdict that leaves testimony and proof by the wayside . As for West German reactions to Jewish survivors of the Democratization and the Jews 17.
... periods . 68 Let us begin with a recent piece on philosemitism in the Second German Empire . The article lists the various types of philosemitism advanced by a previous scholar , only to define the phenomenon in terms of a ...
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 |