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Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism

Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism

Kabalek, Kobi

Hardcover

Series: George L. Mosse the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas

JudaismGerman HistoryHolocaust

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ISBN10: 0299350509
ISBN13: 9780299350505
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Jan 7 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
In Rescue and Remembrance, Kobi Kabalek examines how the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust has been understood and represented in Germany from the Nazi period to the present. In many regions outside Germany, a small number of known Holocaust rescuers are often held up as exemplars of broad pro-Jewish sentiment among that country's population during World War II, thereby projecting an image of national moral virtue. Within Germany, by contrast, rescuers are often presented in both scholarship and public commemoration as a small minority; their examples condemn the majority by showing what Germans could have done but did not do.

Kabalek argues that such simplistic depictions of the majority versus minority obscure the complex motivations and situations that led people in Nazi Germany to help persecuted Jews. Against the view that the rescuers were forgotten after the war, he shows that portrayals and interpretations of helping Jews appeared in various media and social discourses in East, West, and unified Germany and were used to actively debate questions of collective morality. Rescue and Remembrance analyzes the varied and changing depictions of rescue in the distinct German politics from the Nazi period, examining how the very notions of majority and collective were articulated and reformulated.

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