Language:
German
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Traverse
Angaben zur Quelle:
5,1 (1998) 150-156
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Contends that the basic Swiss conception of the history of antisemitism in Switzerland lays in the belief that antisemitism is a non-Swiss phenomenon, something that has penetrated from outside as a contaminous foreign body, and that even if antisemitism does exist, the Jews themselves provoke it. A central component of antisemitic stereotypes is the idea of power, which is associated with the concept of a world Jewish conspiracy and the alliance of Jews and money. Argues that the type of antisemitism which has developed with the debate on the unclaimed accounts in Switzerland is antisemitism not "despite", but "because" of Auschwitz, reacting to the menace of national self-perception of innocence and purity. Jews who recall Switzerland's policies during the Holocaust become unworthy of sympathy: they are foreign bodies. States, in the context of the younger generation's reluctance to deal with the memory of the Holocaust, that the "destruction of memory" is another way of persecuting the Jews.
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