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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] Lessons from the Nazi Past? German Responses to Political Violence beyond Europe
DESCRIPTION:After the collapse of the Third Reich, both German states distanced themselves from their common past: the GDR as an antifascist state that embraced peace, the Federal Republic as a democratic state embracing the rule of law. In their quest for international recognition and economic ties, both states nevertheless interacted, with increasing frequency, with regions experiencing massive violence: from military dictatorships in Latin America, to African countries like Rwanda and Angola, as well as places like Indonesia and Cambodia, where millions of people were being murdered within a short timespan. In the wake of decolonization and the Cold War, the number of politically repressive dictatorships with which Germans maintained ties increased significantly beginning in the 1960s and 1970s. The panel looks at how, in the shadow of the Nazi past, German actors – politicians and diplomats, journalists and intellectuals, as well as NGOs and protest groups – dealt at home and abroad with such violent regions outside of Europe, and at what consequences this had for divided Germany. Special emphasis is given to practices and encounters that went beyond human rights discourses and instead often pursued political, economic, or cultural interests. One central question focuses on the role that the Nazi past and especially the Holocaust played in such interactions. One hypothesis is that initial efforts to distance Germany from such violence may have been an effort to underscore Germany‘s own „new beginning,“ but that this eventually gave way to a sharper focus on its own past and especially the Holocaust. The panel also analyzes semantical debates about when violence should be characterized as genocide, civil war, a national war of independence, or a struggle against terrorism, and about when states should be characterized as bloody dictatorships, authoritarian regimes, or strategic partners important for shoring up stability.
Der Beitrag Lessons from the Nazi Past? German Responses to Political Violence beyond Europe erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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