Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Nurinst 2002
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2002) 20-37
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
A revised version of a lecture held as part of a program accompanying the exhibition "Deutsche verwerten jüdische Nachbarn", Bremen, December 2001-January 2002. Points out that in the first post-Holocaust years, despite Allied efforts at reeducation, antisemitism was still evident. Germans - individuals and institutions - expressed it publicly, and acts of vandalism against cemeteries and other Jewish targets were frequent. This antisemitism was part of the denial of responsibility for the Holocaust. German Holocaust survivors saw in postwar antisemitism a continuation of pre-Nazi and Nazi antisemitism and disputed the use of the term "neo"-antisemitism; they feared that just as Weimar antisemitism had led to one Holocaust, so contemporary antisemitism might lead to another. Although they had little hope that laws prohibiting antisemitism would be effective, they demanded such laws, preferably backed by international treaties. They also proposed aggressive action and educational campaigns against antisemitism by the Jewish community, while arguing that these were really the responsibility of non-Jewish groups. Disputes the view of these German Jews of the continuity of antisemitism; contends that this was a new antisemitism in reaction to the Holocaust.
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