Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Verdrängung und Vernichtung der Juden unter dem Nationalsozialismus
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1992) 333-347
Keywords:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Auschwitz, used as a synonym for the German genocide, is one of the most talked-about taboos in the political culture of postwar Germany. West Germany, as well as reunited Germany, has always been ready to pay reparations, to "compensate" for damages, but resists being reminded of the past. The Federal Republic did not admit responsibility for the Holocaust as did East Germany in 1990. States that the public consciousness in Germany confuses the notion of responsibility with that of guilt; the Germans perceive the discourse on responsibility as an attempt to accuse the whole nation of collective guilt. Focuses on reactions of the public to the broadcast "Auschwitz in Decay", presented on the television program "Panorama" in March 1992. The reactions (phone calls, letters) included statements that the time has come to dismantle the Auschwitz Museum and to direct German material generosity to other aims, and attempts to relativize (even deny) the Holocaust and to share the guilt with others (e.g. the Poles).
Note:
In English: "Holocaust and Genocide Studies" 8,1, 1994.
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