Rescue and Remembrance

Imagining the German Collective After Nazism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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 polities from the Nazi period, examining how the very notions of “majority” and “collective” were articulated and reformulated.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-01-07
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGeorge L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
Antal sidor272
FörlagUniversity of Wisconsin Press
ISBN9780299350505

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Condemned: The Rescue of Jews and Nazi Concepts of Morality2 Scattered: Individual and Group References to Rescue from 1945 to 19603 Collected: Framing and Institutionalizing Rescue from the 1950s to the 1970s4 Expected: “Other Germans” from 1978 to 19885 “Silenced”: Debates over the Memory of Rescue from Schindler’s List to the PresentConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

“This original and insightful account will be an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in the memory of the Holocaust, in particular the purposes to which the notion of rescue has been put since the war.” - Mark Roseman, Indiana University“A complex and multifaceted understanding of the commemoration of ‘rescue’ in postwar Germany. This is an important contribution to our understanding of memory—and historiography—as a heterogenous, dynamic tool for understanding and shaping the present. Kabalek shows admirable tolerance for historical gray areas—for accepting ambiguity and flexibility not only in history but also in its actors and their deeds.” - Stefanie Schu¨ler-Springorum, Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Berlin