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Democratization and the Jews: Munich, 1945-1965

Democratization and the Jews: Munich, 1945-1965

Kauders, Anthony D.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Antisemitism

AnthropologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0803227639
ISBN13: 9780803227637
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Jun 1 2004
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.42
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
Published 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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