Language:
German
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Deutschland Archiv
Angaben zur Quelle:
41,5 (2008) 810-819
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
;
Jews
Abstract:
Commemoration of the bombing of Dresden on 13 February 1945 arouses political controversy every year: demonstrations and counter-demonstrations, which the municipality tries in vain to control. Distinguishes four groups with divergent approaches to the event: the radical-right NPD argues that the victims of the bombing shold be commemorated just like the victims of the Holocaust; just as these were killed only because they were Jews, so the Dresden citizens only because they were Germans. The Alllies who perpetrated the bombing were criminals, the Germans, peaceloving victims of a misunderstanding. The moderate nationalistic right thinks similarly, but recognizes Jewish Germans as victims equally with non-Jewish Germans and casts the blame on the Nazi regime rather than on the Allies. The liberals universalize the human suffering caused by war, and ignore the specific conditions surrounding the Second world War and the Holocaust. Only the radical left points to German guilt and the need to put a stop to German war crimes as the motivation of the Allies, with the reminder that the Germans were the perpetrators; the victims were the Jews.
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