Language:
German
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
16 (2007) 87-113
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Observes that Nazism and antisemitism were taboo in Austria after the war, but did not disappear. Discusses interviews with the children of Nazis as well as autobiographical writings of well-known persons who were children of Nazis. In some families, Nazi parents and grandparents made crude antisemitic remarks, justifying the Holocaust; it was relatively simple for the children to judge and reject these. But in most Austrian families, antisemitism was transmitted more subtly, by stereotypical expressions, "Jewish jokes", and the like, and often these persist from one generation to the next. Antisemitism also appears in resentment over the ascription of guilt to Austria, and in relativization of the Holocaust, often by comparing it to the treatment of Palestinians by Israel. On the other hand, some of the offspring of leading Nazi perpetrators adopt an equally problematic philosemitism.
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