By Robert G. Moeller
Robert G. Moeller powerfully conveys the complex tale of ways West Germans recast the new prior after the second one global battle. He rejects previous characterizations of a postwar West Germany ruled via attitudes of "forgetting" or silence in regards to the Nazi previous. He as an alternative demonstrates the "selective remembering" that happened between West Germans in the course of the postwar years: specifically, they remembered crimes devoted opposed to Germans, crimes that-according to a few modern accounts-were equivalent to the crimes of Germans opposed to Jews. Moeller attracts on quite a lot of U.S. and German govt files, political debates, movie data, letters, oral histories, and newspaper money owed.
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Germans claimed that they could not be collectively guilty for crimes of which they were ignorant. 13 Accounting for the Past 25 By the late 1940s, the western Allies were inclined to agree. Because of the growing tensions of the Cold War, they now abandoned the pursuit of a nation of potential war criminals, seeking instead to anchor rehabilitated West Germans in a western alliance. The postwar emphasis on “collective guilt” and denazification gave way rapidly to a more differentiated conception of accountability, in which the excesses of a handful of Nazis were acknowledged to be just that.
45 billion West German marks (DM) to Israel, with the understanding that of this sum, 450 million DM would go to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims 28 War Stories against Germany (Claims Conference), which represented Jewish victims outside Israel. S. ” Once they had sanctioned the creation of the Federal Republic in 1949, the Allies pressured West Germans to define their own compensation scheme—and thus establish another measure of the Federal Republic’s moral credibility. 27 Debates over compensation schemes amply documented the clear limits most West Germans placed on “racial, religious, or political” persecution during the Third Reich.
63 In the 1960s and 1970s, West Germans reached a much more critical understanding of National Socialism. Memories of German victimization, dominant in the 1950s, were challenged by accounts in which Nazi crimes came to the fore. Still, as the events of the spring of 1995 made clear, this complication of public memory never meant the complete silencing or forgetting of another version of the past, 20 War Stories in which Germans suffered as much as Jews and others persecuted by National Socialism.
