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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... . History as Change : Jews as Fellow Beings , 1958-1965 201 5. Conclusion : Antisemitism , Responsibility , and Democracy 269 Bibliography 283 Index 319 List of Abbreviations AJJDC AWJ ВНЕ American Jewish Joint Distribution.
... responsibility after 1945 . The arguments advanced in the course of this study are intimately related to these four ... responsibility . Finally , the way many West Germans responded to the Holocaust can be characterized as an effort to ...
... responsibility treated in such a manner that the connection between holding a belief and condoning an action would be recognized with much less defiance . The subject of democratization in the Federal Republic usually conjures up a set ...
... responsibilities of government . Every man should be free to think and speak , to write and create , to approve and criticize , to assemble and organize .... Democracy means equality : It recognizes no races , castes , or orders ...
... responsibility , knowledge of the Holocaust , popular support for the regime ) . In doing so , we will learn that many Germans felt that it was possible to employ language that alluded to a " benign , " non - National Socialist past ...
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 |