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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... similar phenomenon ) . The meaning of this charge is derived from the connection between his words and pronouncements of a similar sort made before and after 1945. The illocutionary act involved in his utterance appertains to what is ...
... similar contentions , albeit elaborated in much greater detail . First published in 1967 , Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern ( The inability to mourn ) is a detailed exposition based on case studies of individual patients , discussions of ...
... similar sentiments at a time when such expressions would have been truly " philosemitic . " To maintain that philosemitism was " instrumentalized " is therefore tantamount to holding that false consciousness could be profaned : both ...
... similar analysis from political scientists , see Seymour Martin Lipset , Political Man : The Social Bases of Politics ( Baltimore , Md . 1981 ) , 70 and John Dunn , Western Political Theory in the Face 24 Anthony D. Kauders.
... Similar draft proposals on democracy can be found in the same folder . See also Annette Zimmer , Demokratiegründung und Verfassungsgebung in Bayern : Die Enstehung der Verfassung des Freistaates Bayern von 1946 ( Frankfurt 1987 ) , 341 ...
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 |