Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
28 (1999) 303-340
Keywords:
Jews History 1945-
;
Jews Historiography
;
Jews
Abstract:
Mainly on the basis of interviews, compares nazification in Hildesheim with the plague in Camus' novel. Normal pre-Nazi life in Hildesheim was characterized by a certain neighborly civility in spite of religious and class differences. After the Nazis came to power, "normalcy" was radicalized; society became, almost without noticing it, a "Volksgemeinschaft" that fostered willing participation of "Aryan" Germans and excluded Jews. Gives examples of estrangement between Jews and former non-Jewish friends. Jews who thereby became aware of what was happening emigrated, thus also conforming to the Nazi plan. The persecution and deportation of those who remained were no longer noticed by "Aryan" Hildesheimers and inspired no feelings of guilt after the war.
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