Language:
German
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (1999) 177-194
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Antisemitism
Abstract:
Mainly on the basis of reports by the German police in Frankfurt and Stuttgart to the American occupation authorities, describes the police's hostility to the DPs, especially the Polish Jews. The police constantly pressed the Americans for greater authority to control the DPs, whom they represented as black marketeers and as criminals who endangered the property and safety of peaceloving, defenseless German civilians. During a police raid on the camp in the Reinsburgstrasse in Stuttgart in March 1946, an Auschwitz survivor was shot dead; public opinion and the press supported the police action. There was no attempt to understand the sensibilities of the DPs. Suggests that this attitude was part of the Germans' endeavor to deny complicity in the Holocaust and to restore the solidarity of German society through exculpation and integration of the perpetrators and the projection of guilt on the victims.
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