Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Central European History
Angaben zur Quelle:
40,2 (2007) 279-305
Keywords:
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Jewish refugees
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews, German
;
United States Emigration and immigration
;
Germany Emigration and immigration
Abstract:
Examines wartime views of German political emigrants in the U.S. on the future of Germany after the war. In 1943-44 two main groups crystallized (supported by some non-emigrant Americans): one promoting the idea of a draconian peace, and the second advocating a lenient peace. News reports on German atrocities against Jews and other peoples did not affect the standpoint of the supporters of a lenient peace (e.g. Tillich, Seger, Hermens). In the declarations issued by the Council for a Democratic Germany, the subject of Germany's atonement for the mass murder of Jews was conspicuously lacking, which evoked sharp criticism on the part of promoters of the view that Germany must be punished. Leftists were inclined to conflate the sufferings of the Jews under the Nazis with those of the Left. Draws attention to the fact that plans for the dismemberment of postwar Germany and its de-industrialization were put forward first by non-Jewish politicians, like Lord Robert Vansittart and Sumner Welles, long before the political controversy over the Morgenthau Plan in September 1944.
DOI:
10.1017/S0008938907000544
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