Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: A few weeks after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany in May 1949, American High Commissioner John McCloy addressed an assembly of representatives from the West German Jewish community. In a much-discussed speech, he emphasized the central importance of public recollection of the crimes of the Third Reich for the political culture of the young republic. In particular, said McCloy, the relationship of West Germany towards the Jews would be “one of the real touchstones and the test of Germany’s progress toward the light. The moment that Germany has forgotten the Buchenwalds and Auschwitzes, that was the point at which everyone could begin to despair of any progress in Germany.”
Source: German Politics & Society
Author: Christhard Hoffmann
Institution: University of Bergen
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2109664121