Sprache:
Deutsch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
20 (1991) 393-426
Schlagwort(e):
Jews History
Kurzfassung:
An expanded version of a lecture held in Münster, May 1990. In the first postwar years, Soviet occupation authorities and the East German government generally made efforts to aid Jewish survivors, although they rejected demands for the restitution of property. The Slansky trial and the Doctors' Plot engendered a flood of anti-Jewish propaganda; communist leaders of Jewish descent were tried for an "imperialist-Zionist conspiracy"; hundreds fled to the West. After 1953, the regime's attitude was "schizophrenic": individual Jews and religious congregations enjoyed equal rights and financial support, but Jews as a nation were silenced. The regime was militantly anti-Zionist. At the same time it encouraged literary and artistic works on Jewish tradition and the Holocaust. The Protestant Churches fostered Christian-Jewish dialogue with which the authorities did not dare to interfere. In 1988 Honecker, for political reasons, made an about-turn.
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