Post-war - Nazi legacy Flashcards
When and what was the Reinstatement Act?
1951 - re-employed former Nazi civil servants and gave them their full pension credits for their years of service under the Third Reich.
When and what was the Reparations Treaty?
1952 - gave the state of Israel 3.5 billion DM in compensation for the Holocaust
What stat reflects lingering Nazi support in 1955
The number of West Germans who believed Hitler would have been one of Germany’s greatest statesmen if not for the war stood at 48%
Why was Hans Globke important?
He was Adenauer’s chief of staff but had also been one of the authors of the 1935 Nuremburg Laws.
What stat in 1967 shows some level of Nazi support?
The number of West Germans who believed Hitler would have been one of Germany’s greatest statesmen if not for the war stood at 32%.
How did young people criticise their parents in the 1960s?
Referred to them as the spiessburger - a conformist who hates change. They criticised their silence when questioned on the evens of their own youth.
What was significant about Kiesinger and Heinrich Lubke (Federal President 1959-69)?
They were both former Nazi Party members. Lubke had worked on building prison camps with slave labour and was forced to resign when this became public knowledge.
What happened between 1963 and 1968?
A series of trials of those involved in Auschwitz took place in Frankfurt, in which 22 police and SS functionaries were found guilty of war crimes. Damning documentation and harrowing witness testimonies helped increase public discussion of the Holocaust.
What happened as early as 1962?
10 Lander decided to make the teaching of the Nazi era a compulsory part of their school curriculum.
What was significant about the centre-left SPD governments of 1969-82?
Signified a more open political culture.
What happened in December 1970?
West Germans were shocked when Brandt knelt before the Warsaw ghetto memorial, showing personal remorse for Nazi crimes against the Jews.
What happened in 1972?
PLO terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, public sympathy was almost universally with the massacred Jews.
What happened in January 1979?
A television series on the Holocaust was aired on four consecutive nights and watched by 20 million people. This illustrated a growing desire to tackle the difficult issues raised by Nazism.
What happened after each airing of the Holocaust tv programme?
There was a companion show where a panel of historians could answer questions from people phoning n. The historian’s panels were overwhelmed with thousands of phone calls from shocked and outraged Germans
What change was there in schools from 1968 to the end of the 1970s?
In 1968 471 school parties visited Dachau. By the end of the 1970s over 5000 parties were arriving every year.
