Language:
German
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Geschichtsoptimismus und Katastrophenbewusstsein
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2022) 65-86
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
The starting point of this essay is the Slánský trial that took place in Prague in November 1952, the largest and most clearly antisemitic show trial of late Stalinism. Fourteen high-ranking representatives of the Czechoslovak state and party apparatus, eleven of them Jews, were accused of conspiring against the country’s political order. The article explores the question of why anti-Fascists – the top leadership of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia – tried Jews as Jews and sentenced them to death only seven years after the liberation of Auschwitz. Drawing on the life of communist poet and diplomat Louis Fürnberg, who was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in the Bohemian lands in 1909, this article shows that the early ignorance of the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia resulted from the afterlife of the nationality struggles of the interwar period and the nineteenth century.
DOI:
10.13109/9783666317361.65
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