Unwanted. West German democracy and those persecuted by the Nazi regime
Book presentation
Lecture followed by a discussion between Prof. Dr. Dr. Michel Friedman and Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
After 1945, there was no less anti-Semitism and racism, no less hatred of homosexuals than during National Socialism, but probably even more. The lecture describes the experiences of surviving Jews and Sinti and Roma, former forced laborers and homosexuals in the western part of Germany in the first post-war decades. The common image of the successful democratization of the Federal Republic of Germany is torn apart by these stories. The experiences of those formerly persecuted show that the hatred and resentment against them did not simply disappear; they were deeply rooted in people’s minds and in some cases still are today.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Michel Friedman is a lawyer and philosopher and has been an honorary professor of real estate and media law at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences since 2016. Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum is a historian and has been head of the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at TU Berlin and spokesperson for the FGZ Berlin site since 2011.
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum: Unwanted. West German Democracy and the Persecutees of the Nazi Regime. S. FISCHER 2025. Further information about the book: Here…
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.