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Jewish Claims against East Germany: Moral Obligations and Pragmatic Policy
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- Timm, Angelika (Author)
Title
Jewish Claims against East Germany: Moral Obligations and Pragmatic Policy
Abstract
This is the first comprehensive history of Jewish negotiations with East Germany regarding restitution and reparations for Nazi
war crimes. Angelika Timm analyzes the politics of old and new
anti-Semitism and the context in which they grew under the
officially propagated ideology of antifascism.
Investigating the mass of unpublished, newly available archival
data from the United States, Israel, and the former German
Democratic Republic, and more than forty personal interviews, Timm fills a critical gap in the scholarship on postwar Germany. She
analyzes the role of the Holocaust and the image of Jews in the
historical consciousness and political culture of East Germany and chronicles the efforts of Jewish organizations, especially the
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, to negotiate reparations with the East German state. The unique relationship
between ideology and Realpolitik defined the manner in which East Germany confronted the crimes of its past and allowed anti-Semitism to reemerge.
Publisher
Central European University Press
Date
1997
Language
English
ISBN
978-963-9116-04-7
Short Title
Jewish Claims against East Germany
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DOI: 10.7829/j.ctv280b6q6
Citation
Timm, A. (1997). Jewish Claims against East Germany: Moral Obligations and Pragmatic Policy. Central European University Press. https://doi.org/10.7829/j.ctv280b6q6
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