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Zurückgekehrt : die Geschichte der jüdischen Kommunisten in der DDR
- Title
- Zurückgekehrt : die Geschichte der jüdischen Kommunisten in der DDR / Karin Hartewig.
- Author
- Hartewig, Karin.
- Publication
- Köln : Böhlau, 2000.
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| Text | Use in library | DS135.G332 H37 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vii, 646 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- After surveying the careers of leading communists of Jewish descent - their activities in the party during the Weimar Republic, their behavior in exile, their position in the GDR - describes the party's attitude towards them. While communists were ambivalent about Nazi persecution of Jewish "capitalists, " communist prisoners protected Jewish comrades in the concentration camps. In the first postwar years, East Germans were shocked at the revelation of Nazi crimes, but the party soon developed the theory of two Germanies: the West as successor of the Nazi regime, the East as that of its opponents. Holocaust survivors were not entitled to reparations; their organization, the VVN, was dissolved in 1953. Jews returning from exile in the West and those receiving aid from international organizations were suspect as agents of a Zionist-American conspiracy and were under investigation already in 1949; these investigations, resulting in ousting from positions of influence and from the party, were greatly expanded after the Slánský trial and caused mass flight of Jews. The Holocaust was a theme in literature and movies, but not in historiography. Holocaust memorials did not identify victims as Jews. Following initiatives of the Protestant churches, the regime began in the 1980s to reconstruct Jewish institutions, support commemoration of the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, and cultivate relations with "international Jewry". The security services, however, remained suspicious and hostile.
- Subject
- Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands
- Jews > Germany (East) > History
- Jewish communists > Germany (East) > History
- Ethnic relations
- Jewish communists
- Jews
- Führungsschicht
- Intellektueller und Arbeiterbewegung
- Juden
- Kommunismus und Judentum
- Persönlichkeit, Arbeiterbewegung
- Rückwanderung
- Auswanderung
- Juden
- Kommunist
- Rückkehr
- Vergangenheitsbewältigung
- Kollektives Gedächtnis
- Nationalsozialismus
- Joden
- Communisten
- Jews > Germany > History
- Jewish communists > Germany
- Germany (East) > Ethnic relations
- Germany (East)
- Deutschland DDR
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Hochschulschrift.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 624-637) and index.
- ISBN
- 3412028002
- 9783412028008
- LCCN
- 2001338426
- 9783412028008
- OCLC
- ocm45542781
- 45542781
- SCSB-1200025
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library