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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... 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 Demo- crats and ...
... Post - war Germany , Munich 1945-65 , " German History 18 , no . 4 ( 2000 ) : 461-84 . Indiana University Press , for excerpts from Anthony D. Kauders , " History as Censure : ' Repression ' and ' Philosemitism ' in Postwar Germany ...
... More profane accounts have been offered too . Since numerous postwar reports indicate that economic privation did little to advance the democratic cause , economic recovery eventually ensured the 2 Anthony D. Kauders.
... postwar years , when chaos was rife in all walks of life , the title to utility required that the government distribute efficiently whatever scarce goods were available . And because the West German state managed to prolong this ...
... postwar politician of the Christian Social Union ( CSU ) linked the Jews with black marketeering , he was articulating a view that many other West Germans shared , to wit , that DPs and Eastern Jews were responsible for racketeering ...
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 |