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By Jacob S. Eder

within the face of an outpouring of study on Holocaust history, Holocaust Angst takes an cutting edge method. It explores how Germans perceived and reacted to how americans publicly venerated the Holocaust. It argues community of in general conservative West German officers and their affiliates in inner most corporations and foundations, with Chancellor Kohl positioned at its heart, perceived themselves because the "victims" of the afterlife of the Holocaust in the United States. They have been involved that public manifestations of Holocaust reminiscence, comparable to museums, monuments, and films, may significantly harm the Federal Republic's popularity or even reason american citizens to query the Federal Republic's prestige as an best friend. From their viewpoint, American Holocaust memorial tradition constituted a stumbling block for (West) German-American kinfolk because the overdue 1970s.

Providing the 1st accomplished, archival learn of German efforts to deal with the Nazi previous vis-à-vis the U.S. as much as the Nineties, this ebook uncovers the fears of German officials-some of whom have been former Nazis or international warfare II veterans-about the impression of Holocaust reminiscence at the popularity of the Federal Republic and divulges their now and then unfavorable perceptions of yank Jews. targeting numerous fields of interplay, starting from the diplomatic to the scholarly and public spheres, the e-book finds the advanced and sometimes contradictory technique of handling the legacies of genocide on a world level. West German determination makers learned that American Holocaust reminiscence used to be no longer an "anti-German plot" through American Jews and stated that they can now not considerably switch American Holocaust discourse. in any case, German disagreement with American Holocaust reminiscence contributed to a extra open engagement at the a part of the West German govt with this reminiscence and at last rendered it a "positive source" for German self-representation abroad.

Holocaust Angst deals new views on postwar Germany's position on the planet approach in addition to the Holocaust tradition within the usa and the function of transnational organizations.

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