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From the very moment of the liberation of camps at Auschwitz, Belsen and Buchenwald, Germans have been held accountable for the crimes committed in the Holocaust. The Nazi regime unleashed the most systematic attempt in history to wipe out an entire people, murdering men, women and children for the simple 'crime' of being Jewish. After the war ended in 1945, the Jewish State of Israel was created and Jewish communities were re-established in a now divided Germany. Germans have engaged actively with their Nazi legacy and the Jewish communities have remained and grown stronger, but neo-Nazism has also persisted. Young Germans have learned the horrific deeds of the past at school, and throughout the world, people of all nations have tried to learn the lesson 'never again', while Germany has become 'Israel's best friend in Europe'. Pól Ó Dochartaigh analyses the ways in which Germans and Jews alike have attempted to come to terms with the Holocaust and its terrible legacy. He also looks at efforts to remember – and to forget – the Holocaust, movement towards recompense and reparation, and the survival of anti-Semitism.

This volume contains some 46 essays on various aspects of contemporary German-Jewish literature. The approaches are diverse, reflecting the international origins of the contributors, who are based in seventeen different countries. Holocaust literature is just one theme in this context; others are memory, identity, Christian-Jewish relations, anti-Zionism, la belle juive, and more. Prose, poetry and drama are all represented, and there is a major debate on the controversial attempt to stage Fassbinder's Der Müll, die Stadt und der Todin 1985. The overall approach of the volume is an inclusive one. In his introduction, the editor calls for a reappraisal of the terms of German-Jewish discourse away from the notion of 'Germans' and 'Jews' and towards the idea that both Jews and non-Jews, all of them Germans, have contributed to the corpus of 'German-Jewish literature'.

Beginning with the day of Nazi Germany's surrender, this book traces the main political, social and economic developments in occupied Germany, in both German states up to 1990, and in reunited Germany. schovat popis

In the aftermath of World War II, both the Allied occupying forces and emerging German authorities sought to identify Germans whose wartime actions could challenge the perception of Germans as inherently evil. This quest has continued, leading to a rise in cultural portrayals of the "good German," contrasting with committed Nazis and perpetrators of genocide. These representations emphasize individual choices favoring dissent, moral truth, or civil disobedience. While the existence of "good Germans" does not negate the horrors of Hitler's regime, it reflects a value system rooted in humanity and an alternative vision of community. This collection of essays examines postwar and contemporary portrayals of "good Germans" during the Third Reich, delving into the moral reasoning, cultural relativism, and social conformity depicted in these narratives. It brings together discussions on the role and perception of "good Germans" both in Germany and internationally. Contributors include Eoin Bourke, Manuel Bragança, Maeve Cooke, and others, with insights into the complexities of moral behavior in a historical context. Pól O Dochartaigh and Christiane Schönfeld lead the academic contributions, providing a scholarly framework for understanding these representations.

This volume is the first comprehensive single study of Jewish themes in any of the post-1945 German literatures. It presents literature on Jewish themes by Jewish and non-Jewish authors in the cultural, social and political context of the Soviet Zone/GDR during the entire 45 years of its history from 1945 to 1990. It offers a brief history of Jews in the GDR, before looking, in four chronologically ordered chapters, at the history of publishing on Jewish themes in the GDR. Some 28 texts by 19 different authors, including Anna Seghers, Stephan Hermlin, Arnold Zweig, Franz FÜhmann, Johannes Bobrowski, Jurek Becker, Stefan Heym, GÜnter Kunert, Christa Wolf and Helga KÖnigsdorf, are then singled out for closer analysis.Such themes as historical anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, Jewish resistance, Jewish assimilation, Heine, Marx, Moses Mendelssohn, Jewish survival, and Jews in the GDR are all discussed in the book. The volume also offers evidence of the political influences on publishing on Jewish themes at various stages in the GDR's history. In addition, a structured bibliography of some 1100 items is offered, approximately 750 of which were published in the GDR with a Jewish content or theme. The study should be of interest to students of contemporary German literature and politics, the GDR, and of Jewish studies in the wider context.