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HOLOCAUST ANGST: The Federal Republic of Germany and American Holocaust Memory since the 1970s
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In the face of an outpouring of research on Holocaust history, Holocaust Angst takes an innovative approach. It explores how Germans perceived and reacted to how Americans publicly commemorated the Holocaust. It argues that a network of mostly conservative West German officials and their associates in private organizations and foundations, with Chancellor Kohl located at its center, perceived themselves as the victims of the afterlife of the Holocaust in America. They were concerned that public manifestations of Holocaust memory, such as museums, monuments, and movies, could severely damage the Federal Republic s reputation and even cause Americans to question the Federal Republic s status as an ally. From their perspective, American Holocaust memorial culture constituted a stumbling block for (West) GermanAmerican relations since the late 1970s.Providing the first comprehensive, archival study of German efforts to cope with the Nazi past visvis the United States up to the 1990s, this book uncovers the fears of German officialssome of whom were former Nazis or World War II veteransabout the impact of Holocaust memory on the reputation of the Federal Republic and reveals their at times negative perceptions of American Jews. Focusing on a variety of fields of interaction, ranging from the diplomatic to the scholarly and public spheres, the book unearths the complicated and often contradictory process of managing the legacies of genocide on an international stage. West German decision makers realized that American Holocaust memory was not an antiGerman plot by American Jews and acknowledged that they could not significantly change American Holocaust discourse. In the end, German confrontation with American Holocaust memory contributed to a more open engagement on the part of the West German government with this memory and eventually rendered it a positive resource for German selfrepresentation abroad.Holocaust Angst offers new perspectives on postwar Germany s place in the world system as well as the Holocaust culture in the United States and the role of transnational organizations.
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