26. L’attitude à l’égard des Juifs et de la Shoah dans l’Allemagne d’après-guerre (1945-1968)
In the early post-war period, there was a discrepancy between the new political and intellectual elites and the continued existence of anti-Semitic attitudes in large parts of the German population. While Nazis were initially more thoroughly eliminated in the Soviet occupation zone, or the early GDR...
Enregistré dans:
| Auteurs principaux: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Français |
| Publié: |
2018
|
| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | In the early post-war period, there was a discrepancy between the new political and intellectual elites and the continued existence of anti-Semitic attitudes in large parts of the German population. While Nazis were initially more thoroughly eliminated in the Soviet occupation zone, or the early GDR, and anti-Semitism was, in accordance with socialist self-conception, declared to have been “killed off at the root”, motives for the emergence of anti-Semitism and right-wing parties arose in the western zones and the early Federal Republic in the form of conflicts with Jewish displaced persons, the question of the restitution of Jewish property as well as the debate regarding the punishment of Nazi criminals. From 1949 onwards, the political leadership of the GDR followed Stalin’s line and initiated an anti-Zionism campaign against Jewish communities and SED functionaries, which caused several hundred Jews to escape to West Germany. After a period of “silence” regarding the Nazi past, anti-Semitic scandals starting at the end of the 1950s as well as the Eichmann and Auschwitz trials led to an increased examination of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in the Federal Republic of Germany. The Six Day War of 1967 was the motivation for an anti-Zionist shift with anti-Semitic undertones among radical left-wing students in Western Germany as well as in official GDR politics. |
|---|