Language:
German
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Politik
Angaben zur Quelle:
42,1 (1995) 1-15
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Based on lectures held in 1994 at the Polnische Institut in Düsseldorf and at the Katholische Universität in Eichstätt. In reevaluating a 1966 essay by Adorno, warns against a simplistic perpetrator-victim schema, or the confinement of victim status to the Jewish people (though acknowledging that there never was anything comparable to the Nazi gas chambers). People of many nations were victims of communism as well as Nazism, or of acts of revenge by their own nation's former victims. Just as the Polish regime's suppression of the Jewish identity of the majority of the victims of Auschwitz was unacceptable, so was Jewish disregard of the Polish victims of both Nazism and Stalinism, which led to the misunderstandings around the Auschwitz site and to the resentment of many Poles. Nations cannot be expected to acknowledge their guilt unless their own suffering as victims is acknowledged at the same time.
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