Book contents
- Germany through Jewish Eyes
- Germany through Jewish Eyes
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Jewish Gaze – Plural and Unique
- Part I Learning to Know Germany: 1780–1840
- Part II Liberty, Unity, Equality: 1840–1870
- Part III Living in Germany: 1870–1930
- Part IV A Lost Homeland: 1930–2000
- 10 The Abyss
- 11 Victims, Witnesses, Plaintiffs
- 12 Strangers at Home
- Epilogue: Berlin is not Weimar
- Index
11 - Victims, Witnesses, Plaintiffs
from Part IV - A Lost Homeland: 1930–2000
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2024
- Germany through Jewish Eyes
- Germany through Jewish Eyes
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Jewish Gaze – Plural and Unique
- Part I Learning to Know Germany: 1780–1840
- Part II Liberty, Unity, Equality: 1840–1870
- Part III Living in Germany: 1870–1930
- Part IV A Lost Homeland: 1930–2000
- 10 The Abyss
- 11 Victims, Witnesses, Plaintiffs
- 12 Strangers at Home
- Epilogue: Berlin is not Weimar
- Index
Summary
Many Jews coming from various parts of Eastern Europe found refuge in Germany, of all places, in huge “displaced-persons camps.” They made up as many Jews as had lived in the country before the war, only they were younger and unexpectedly active. While few German Jews returned to the “land of the murderers,” the new migrants took their place. This chapter tells the tale of their settlement in Germany, parallel to the building up the Federal Republic, especially under the the US military occupation. They could only observe with unease the signs of antisemitism in the new German state, and support the early acts of restitution as well as the financial agreement with Israel signed in 1952. They were also the first to demand some sort of confrontation with the Nazi past. Fritz Bauer, a Jewish jurist who fled to Denmark and later to Sweden during the war and finally returned to Germany afterwards, took it upon himself, as the Prosecutor of the State of Hessen, to organize and then serve as prosecutor in the so-called Auschwitz trials. The chapter ends with his life-story.
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- Germany through Jewish EyesA History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, pp. 183 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024