ISBN:
9781501707612
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9781501707629
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 360 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
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23 cm
Edition:
First published
Year of publication:
2017
Series Statement:
Signale
Series Statement:
modern German letters, cultures, and thought
Series Statement:
A Signale book
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Chung, C. K. Martin, author Repentance for the Holocaust
DDC:
940.53/18
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Moral and ethical aspects
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
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Repentance Judaism
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Memory Religious aspects
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Judaism
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Historiography Moral and ethical aspects
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Public opinion, German
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Public opinion
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Deutschland
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Judenvernichtung
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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Deutschland
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Judenvernichtung
;
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Abstract:
"Develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewältigung or "coming to terms with the past." Chung examines a selection of German responses to the Nazi past, their interaction with the victims' responses, such as those from Jewish individuals, and their correspondence with biblical repentance. In demonstrating the victims' influence on German responses, Chung asserts that the phenomenon of Vergangenheitsbewältigung can best be understood in a relational, rather than a national, paradigm"--
Abstract:
Turning in the God-human relationship -- Interhuman and collective repentance -- People, not devils -- Fascism was the great apostasy -- The French must love the German spirit now entrusted to them -- One cannot speak of injustice without raising the question of guilt -- You won't believe how thankful I am for what you have said -- Courage to say no and still more courage to say yes -- Raise our voice, both Jews and Germans -- The appropriateness of each proposition depends upon who utters it -- Hitler is in ourselves, too -- I am Germany -- Know before whom you will have to give an account -- We take over the guilt of the fathers -- Remember the evil, but do not forget the good -- We are not authorized to forgive
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-348) and index
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