Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
European History Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
34,3 (2004) 305-335
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Contends that the Allied re-education policies of 1945-46, which included distribution of concentration camp photographs, publication of memoirs by victims of Nazism, screenings of films, etc., and also the Nuremberg Trials, failed to instill in the German consciousness a sense of responsibility for the crimes of Nazism. The Allied re-education program was focused on the Nazi perpetrators (what they did to Germany) and on the other, good, anti-Nazi Germans; it de-emphasized the mass murders of Jews and Slavs. When referring to victims, the Allies meant mainly political prisoners rather than Jews. The emphasis on Germany as a primary victim of Nazism paved the way for the idea of Allied victimization of Germany and for revisionism of the recent past. The evolving Cold War doomed the proper re-education of German society to failure.
DOI:
10.1177/0265691404044141
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