West Germany And Israel

Author : Daniel Marwecki
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Germany (West)
ISBN : 9781787383180

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Germany and Israel by Daniel Marwecki Pdf

According to common perception, the Federal Republic of Germany supported the formation of the Israeli state for moral reasons--to atone for its Nazi past--but did not play a significant role in the Arab-Israeli conflict. However, the historical record does not sustain this narrative. Daniel Marwecki's pathbreaking analysis deconstructs the myths surrounding the odd alliance between Israel and post-war democratic Germany. Thorough archival research shows how German policymakers often had disingenuous, cynical or even partly antisemitic motivations, seeking to whitewash their Nazi past by supporting the new Israeli state. This is the true context of West Germany's crucial backing of Israel in the 1950s and '60s. German economic and military support greatly contributed to Israel's early consolidation and eventual regional hegemony. This initial alliance has affected Germany's role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the present day. Marwecki reassesses German foreign policymaking and identity-shaping, and raises difficult questions about German responsibility after the Holocaust, exploring the many ways in which the genocide of European Jews and the dispossession of the Palestinians have become tragically intertwined in the Middle East's international politics. This long overdue investigation sheds new light on a major episode in the history of the modern Middle East.

Author : Carole Fink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107075450

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West Germany and Israel by Carole Fink Pdf

A new history of the West German-Israeli relationship as these two countries faced terrorism, war, and economic upheaval in a global Cold War environment.

Author : Hannfried von Hindenburg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1845452879

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Demonstrating Reconciliation by Hannfried von Hindenburg Pdf

During the 1950s and early 1960s, the West German government refused to exchange ambassadors with Israel. It feared Arab governments might retaliate against such an acknowledgement of their political foe by recognizing Communist East Germany-West Germany's own nemesis-as an independent state, and in doing so confirm Germany's division. Even though the goal of national unification was far more important to German policymakers than full reconciliation with Israel in the aftermath of the Holocaust, in 1965 the Bonn government eventually did agree to commence diplomatic relations with Jerusalem. This was due, the author argues, to grassroots intervention in high-level politics. Students, the media, trade unions, and others pushed for reconciliation with Israel rather than the pursuit of German unification. For the first time, this book provides an in-depth look at the role society played in shaping Germany's relations with Israel. Today, German society continues to reject anti-Semitism, but is increasingly prepared to criticize Israeli policies, especially in the Palestinian territories. The author argues that this trend sets the stage for a German foreign policy that will continue to support Israel, but is likely to do so more selectively than in the past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:916128388

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The special relationship between West Germany and Israel by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Lavy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135209025

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Germany and Israel by George Lavy Pdf

In 1952, the Federal Republic of West Germany concluded a treaty with Israel whereby the Germans had to pay three billion Deutschmarks in compensation for the Holocaust. However, the Israelis felt that Germany owed Israel a moral as well as a financial debt, and thus expected further aid and protection. Although Germany made several concessions in favour of the Jewish State, particularly in the domain of armament, as Germany's political status increased, its national interest gradually took priority over that of Israel. This book examines the grounds which motivated Germany to grant aid to Israel and the change in their relations as the German economy flourished and gained influence in world affairs.

Author : Jeffrey Herf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107089860

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Undeclared Wars with Israel by Jeffrey Herf Pdf

This book examines antagonism to Israel by East and West Germany, from the Six-Day War through the Cold War.

Author : Yaakov Sharett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110255386

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The Reparations Controversy by Yaakov Sharett Pdf

This book about the reparations issue ("Wiedergutmachung" in German; "shilumim" in Hebrew) brings together selected protocols of all debates held in the Knesset, in its Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, in the Government and in the high councils of the ruling party Mapai, regarding conducting negotiations with the West German Government. This is the first book documenting confidential protocols lately opened to the public. With the elaborate introduction by Yehiam Weitz, this book will serve as a basic textbook for an important chapter not only in Israeli and German history, but also in post-war history in general.

Author : Lorena De Vita
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1526147815

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Israelpolitik by Lorena De Vita Pdf

This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period to the present.

Author : Edwin Black
Publisher : Dialog Press
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780914153931

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The Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black Pdf

The Transfer Agreement is Edwin Black's compelling, award-winning story of a negotiated arrangement in 1933 between Zionist organizations and the Nazis to transfer some 50,000 Jews, and $100 million of their assets, to Jewish Palestine in exchange for stopping the worldwide Jewish-led boycott threatening to topple the Hitler regime in its first year. 25th Anniversary Edition.

Author : Gaëlle Fisher
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1789206677

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Resettlers and Survivors by Gaëlle Fisher Pdf

Located on the border of present-day Romania and Ukraine, the historical region of Bukovina was the site of widespread displacement and violence as it passed from Romanian to Soviet hands and back again during World War II. This study focuses on two groups of “Bukovinians”—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—as they navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in and after 1945. Through comparisons of the narratives and self-conceptions of these groups, Resettlers and Survivors gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II, while exploring Bukovina’s significance for them as both a geographical location and a “place of memory.”

Author : Hannfried von Hindenburg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789204209

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Demonstrating Reconciliation by Hannfried von Hindenburg Pdf

During the 1950s and early 1960s, the West German government refused to exchange ambassadors with Israel. It feared Arab governments might retaliate against such an acknowledgement of their political foe by recognizing Communist East Germany–West Germany’s own nemesis–as an independent state, and in doing so confirm Germany’s division. Even though the goal of national unification was far more important to German policymakers than full reconciliation with Israel in the aftermath of the Holocaust, in 1965 the Bonn government eventually did agree to commence diplomatic relations with Jerusalem. This was due, the author argues, to grassroots intervention in high-level politics. Students, the media, trade unions, and others pushed for reconciliation with Israel rather than the pursuit of German unification. For the first time, this book provides an in-depth look at the role society played in shaping Germany’s relations with Israel. Today, German society continues to reject anti-Semitism, but is increasingly prepared to criticize Israeli policies, especially in the Palestinian territories. The author argues that this trend sets the stage for a German foreign policy that will continue to support Israel, but is likely to do so more selectively than in the past.

Author : Shlomo Shafir
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0814327230

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Ambiguous Relations by Shlomo Shafir Pdf

Ambiguous Relations addresses for the first time the complex relationship between American Jews and Germany over the fifty years following the end of World War II, and examines American Jewry's ambiguous attitude toward Germany that continues despite sociological and generational changes within the community. Shlomo Shafir recounts attempts by American Jews to influence U.S. policy toward Germany after the war and traces these efforts through President Reagan's infamous visit to Bitburg and beyond. He shows how Jewish demands for justice were hampered not only by America's changing attitude toward West Germany as a post-war European power but also by the distraction of anti-communist hysteria in this country.

Author : Philipp Gassert,Alan E. Steinweis
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781845455057

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Coping with the Nazi Past by Philipp Gassert,Alan E. Steinweis Pdf

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Based on careful, intensive research in primary sources, many of these essays break new ground in our understanding of a crucial and tumultuous period. The contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, offer an in-depth analysis of how the collective memory of Nazism and the Holocaust influenced, and was influenced by, politics and culture in West Germany in the 1960s. The contributions address a wide variety of issues, including prosecution for war crimes, restitution, immigration policy, health policy, reform of the police, German relations with Israel and the United States, nuclear non-proliferation, and, of course, student politics and the New Left protest movement.

Author : Lorena De Vita
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526162547

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Israelpolitik by Lorena De Vita Pdf

This book reinterprets the history of German-Israeli relations by examining the policies that East and West Germany implemented towards Israel in the early Cold War from an innovative and multinational angle.

Author : Kurt Richard Grossmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Germany
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120813907

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Germany's Moral Debt by Kurt Richard Grossmann Pdf

Discusses the treaty known as the Luxemburg Agreement which obligated West Germany to pay Israel $822,000,000 in goods as compensation for the Jewish Holocaust.