Language:
German
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Tribüne; Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
155 (2000) 108-116
Keywords:
Kristallnacht, 1938
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Observes that the "Kristallnacht" pogrom marked the transition from anti-Jewish legislation to the withdrawal of legal protection from the Jews, placing them at the mercy of the Nazi apparatus. With few exceptions, the perpetrators of the pogrom went unpunished. The courts ruled in the spirit of Nazi ideology. Even in the Confessing Church, few of the clergy protested; leading Evangelical churchmen concurred with the need for antisemitic measures, though objecting (weakly) to violence. In postwar Germany, the exoneration of Nazi criminals - from judges to Einsatzgruppen commanders - continued to a great extent; many occupied positions in the new state. Concludes that antisemitism still occurs today even in the German elite, and only critical awareness of the past can overcome it.
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