Language:
English
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
19 (1990) 1-12
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Discusses German failure to cast off elements of the Nazi mentality after the war, especially antisemitism. Describes the 1949 trial of Veit Harlan, director of Nazi propaganda films (including the venomous "Jud Süss") for "crimes against humanity". Harlan was acquitted in 1949, as well as in the appeal in 1950. A large-scale survey carried out by the Allensbach Demoscopic Institute in 1949 discovered widespread latent antisemitism even among respondents who denied being antisemitic. Examines the mechanism of German rejection of the past, its desire to whitewash Nazi guilt, during the first years after the war. The Nazi period was treated with collective silence and widespread amnesia until the third generation attempted to break the silence at the end of the 1960s.
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