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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... relations on behalf of my work . I thank them very much for their considerable support . I am equally beholden to Alifa Saadya and ( speedy ) Yohai Goell , whose editorial assistance has proved invaluable . For reading parts of the ...
... Relations aspects to teaching individual Germans democracy , " for example , recommended that U.S. officials make use of the " Definition of Democracy " taken from the March 1947 edition of Life magazine , which comprised the following ...
... relation to some pre - existing conversation or argument . " 30 Accordingly , it will focus more on the language used in regard to the " Jewish question , " in the process uncovering both manifestations of prejudice that harked back to ...
... relations after 1945 , and continues to inform the understanding of many scholars working in the field . Both interpretations ostensibly refer to developments that occurred after 1945 , and both purport to explain these developments ...
... relation to it that simultaneously remembers and takes partial leave of it . " 3 In this juxtaposition of ill and healthy , acting - out is the malady that only working - through can cure . Those who " repress " the past , so this ...
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 |