Language:
German
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Menora; Jahrbuch für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
11 (2000) 103-118
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Jews
Abstract:
Against allegations that they had shirked front-line army service, Jews in the Weimar Republic stressed their war dead. Thus they made the dedication in 1927 of the memorial to "the unknown Jewish soldiers" (unknown also in the sense that the German public ignored them) at the Weissensee cemetery in Berlin into a great patriotic ceremony. While numerous German notables attended, the mayor of Berlin and the President and Prime Minister of the Reich stayed away. The newspapers, which usually gave extensive coverage to the dedication of every new war memorial, hardly mentioned this one for the Jews. The Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten hoped that their proven patriotism would prevail against Nazi antisemitism, but this hope soon proved vain.
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