Jews, Turks, and Other Strangers: Roots of Prejudice in Modern Germany

Index

199 Index Adenauer, Konrad, 24 Adorno, T. W., 109, 115, 116 African Americans: racial stereotyping of, 11, 70, 76; the “racial threat” hypothesis, 160 Albanians: German attitudes toward, 57–59, 185n; prejudice in Italy toward, 58 age: and anti-foreign sentiment, 66, 68, 100, 107; and antisemitism, 125, 126–27, 152, 166; and support for refugees and immigrants , 72, 76 Allied Control Council, 21 Allies, policies in postwar Germany, 15–22 Andriano, Alberto, 3, 132 antisemitism: and anti-foreign sentiment, 100, 109, 126, 127, 128, 129; economic difficulty and, 114; and economic resentment , 7–9; “eliminationist,” 138, 139; impact of Holocaust interpretation variable, 128; “international Jewry” as a concept of, 139, 140; measurement of classical, 119– 21; measurement of Holocaust interpretation variable, 119, 121, 146; multivariate model of, 148–53; and subjective deprivation , 8 Arab oil embargo, 7, 12, 28–29 Arendt, Hannah, 117–18 Armenian genocide, 143 asylum-seekers, 40–45; from Bosnia, 44–45; from Iran, 44; from Iraq, 44; from Turkey , 44; from Yugoslavia, 44; German attitudes on lifestyle differences with, 85; German attitudes as marriage partners and neighbors, 86–87; German perception of political and legal rights of, 92–94 Auschwitz: as a symbol, 141, 144, 169; Catholics-Jewish conflict at, 168 Austro-Hungarian Empire, ethnic Germans in, 37 authoritarianism: and anti-foreign sentiment, 100, 109; and antisemitism, 153 Babi Yar (Ukraine), 168 Baden-Württemberg, state elections, 48, 49 Baeck, Leo, 187n Baldwin, Peter, 187n Barak Ehud, 1999 German visit, 132–33 Barkai, Avraham, 19 Basic Law: agents of persecution, 43; Article 16, deprivation of citizenship, 38, 40; and German pride, 80, 82; 1993 amendments , 42–43, 58, 131–32; reasoning of, 21; safe country of origin, 42; safe third country, 42 Bavaria, municipal elections, 48, 49 Beck, E. M., 160–61 Bergmann, Werner, 8, 169 Berlin: Jews in, 144; municipal elections, 52; right-wing extremist crimes, 160–61; Senate elections, 48; transfer of capitol from Bonn, 132 Berlin Airlift, 21 Berlin Holocaust Memorial, 131, 133–36, 153, 168–69 Berlin Wall: collapse of, 32, 92, 170; construction , 21; impact on labor shortages, 27–27; opening of, 35–36 Bollen, Kenneth A., 184n Bolshevism, 117 200 Index Bonn, transferring the capitol from, 132 Bosnian refugees, 44–45 Breman, right-wing extremist crimes, 160 Browning, Christopher, 139–40 Bubis, Ignatz: and Martin Walser, 141–44, 148; views on Berlin Holocaust Memorial , 134; views on cemetery desecration, 46 Buchenwald, 19 Bundesrat, state elections, 53 Bundestag, composition after 2002 National Election, 171; German citizen pride in, 81; and refugee policy, 21 Burianek, Otto, 6 Bush, George W., 171 Calley, William, 138 Cambodian genocide, 143 Carter administration, 136 Castles, Stephen, 5, 6 Catherine the Great, 37 Catholic Church, 115 Center for the Study of the Holocaust, 136 Central Committee for Jews in Germany, 144 Chapin, Wesley D., 5, 7 Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union: attitude toward Citizenship Law, 9–10, 53; as a coalition partner with the Social Democrats, 52; election in Saxony-Anhalt, 50; high economic expectations for unification, 33; role in Economic Miracle, 24–25; 2002 national election, 171 Churchill, Winston, 17 Citizenship Law of 2000, 10, 163–65 Clinton administration, 136 collective guilt, 121 Common Market, 23 contact-isolation hypothesis: anti-foreign attitudes and, 103; antisemtism and, 125, 127, 130, 162; description of, 7, 96, 98– 99; results of multivariate analysis, 103 Croats, German attitudes toward, 57–58, 185n Czechoslovakia: German ethnics in, 37; 35; refugees from Soviet invasion, 40; role in the GDR collapse, 35; Soviet troop reductions in, 34; Sudetenland, 38 Czestochowa (Poland), 141 Dachau, 19 Däuber-Gmelin, Herta, 173 Dawidowicz, Lucy, 117 Dayton Peace Agreement, 44 Deckert, Günter, 47 Depression of 1873, 117 Der Spiegel, 167n Dessau (FRG), 3 Deutsche National-Zeitung, 49 Deutsche Wochen-Zeitung, 49 Dielkirchen (FRG), 129 Diepgen, Eberhard, 135 displaced persons, Allied policy toward, 18– 21 Dublin Convention, 44 Duke, David, 160 Düsseldorf, 129, 145 East Berlin: demands for new elections, 35; strikes and demonstrations (1953), 33 economic growth, 28–30, 158 Economic Miracle (Wirtschaftswunder), 24–25; and guest workers, 27–28, 165 economic perceptions: and anti-foreign sentiment , 94–96, 102, 100–111; and antisemitism , 124, 151; of German citizens, 60–62; measurement of, 101–2; and support for refugees, 72 economic resentment hypothesis, 4–9, 14, 55, 56, 65, 68–69, 70, 76–77, 95, 96, 110, 118, 123, 127, 129, 131, 155, 160, 162, 165, 166, 173 education, relationship to anti-foreign sentiment , 65, 68, 99, 107; and antisemitism, 125, 126, 152...