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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... political and religious discourse on the " Jewish Question , " Anthony D. Kauders shows how men and women in the immedi- ate postwar era employed antisemitic images from the Weimar Republic in order to distance themselves from the ...
... political debates , trials of " war criminals , " treatments of the Third Reich in literature , art , and the cinema , restitution ( Wiedergutmachung ) , or the different means of commemoration.17 Nevertheless , there remain two further ...
... political debate . " " By understanding the text as a political maneuver ( illocutionary force ) , moreover , we may be able to appreciate the practical context of an utterance : " that is the problematic political activity or ...
... political , competitive character . Munich as a case study offers a number of advantages relevant to the nature of the subject . Having been the " capital " of the National Socialist movement , it presents sufficient material to examine ...
... political , economic , or humanistic values . " 72 While the former approach embraces the Kantian obsession with " duty " and intention , rejecting attempts at associating " philosemitism " with philosophical consequentialism ( or ...
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 |