Language:
French
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Le Débat; histoire, politique, société
Angaben zur Quelle:
124 (2003) 171-188
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Discusses German reactions to the thesis of collective guilt, relating it to the trauma they suffered when confronted with images of the death camps in 1945. Disagrees with Helmut Dubiel, who views the thesis as a German invention and an indirect admission of guilt. Based on works by Thomas Mann, Karl Jaspers, Erich Kästner, Eugen Kogon, and Hans Schneider/Schwerte, shows that the shock therapy meted out to Germans by the Allies at the war's end produced shame rather than guilt. Concludes that Germany, though officially reformed, still wrestles with this trauma, which serves as a defense against certain forms of collective and public memory.
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