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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... various efforts to come to terms with the Nazi past , so - called Vergangenheitsbewältigung . Rather than conflate these images , however , the following passages suggest that , by keeping them apart , we might pay tribute to one image ...
... various means to secure the effectiveness of the new state . If it was to succeed , this view maintains , the Federal Republic had to win over the hearts of the populace by attending to its need for order and stability.12 Especially in ...
... various impediments notwithstanding . The second and third goals complement each other . The question of continuity and discontinuity in German antisemitism takes up positions that have posited a new form of antisemitism after 1945 ...
... various ways involved in Vergan- genheitsbewältigung , resided in the Bavarian capital . Having the former concentration camp Dachau and numerous DP camps in its vicinity , Munich's population was directly faced with the past , so that ...
... various ways and thus are prone to develop melancholia . Most ruminations on postwar " repression , " however , are not based on Freud only , but rely heavily on intermediaries and agents of psychoanalytical thought . Three figures in ...
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 |