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After the Nazi Racial State Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe Rita Chin, Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley, and Atina Grossmann The University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor Copyright © by the University of Michigan 2009 All rights reserved Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America c Printed on acid-free paper 2012 2011 2010 2009 4 3 2 1 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher. A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data After the Nazi racial state : difference and democracy in Germany and Europe / by Rita Chin ... [et al.]. p. cm. — (Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-472-11686-7 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-472-11686-X (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-472-03344-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-472-03344-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Racism—Germany—History—20th century. 2. Germany—Race relations—History—20th century. 3. Europe—Race relations— History—20th century. 4. Alien labor—Germany—History—20th century. I. Chin, Rita C-K, 1970– DD74.A38 2009 305.800943—dc22 2008047855 ISBN-13 978-0-472-02578-7 (electronic)

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Page 1: Chin and Fehrenbach - After the Nazi Racial State (Introduction)

Aft

er t

he

Nazi

Raci

al

Sta

te

Dif

fere

nce

an

d D

emo

cracy

in

Ger

man

y a

nd

Eu

rop

e

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man

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Race

rela

tio

ns—

His

tory

—20th

cen

tury

.3.

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rop

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ace

rel

ati

on

s—

His

tory

—20th

cen

tury

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Co

nte

nts

Intr

od

uct

ion

: W

hat’

s R

ace

Go

t to

Do

Wit

h I

t? P

ost

war

Ger

man

His

tory

in

Co

nte

xt

1

Rit

a C

hin

and H

eide

Feh

renbach

ch

apt

er

1

Bla

ck O

ccu

pati

on

Ch

ild

ren

an

d t

he

Dev

olu

tio

n o

fth

e

Nazi

Raci

al

Sta

te30

Hei

de

Feh

renbach

ch

apt

er

2

Fro

m V

icti

ms

to “

Ho

mel

ess

Fo

reig

ner

s”:

Jew

ish

Su

rviv

ors

in P

ost

war

Ger

man

y55

Ati

na G

ross

mann

ch

apt

er

3

Gu

est

Wo

rker

Mig

rati

on

an

d t

he

Un

exp

ecte

d R

etu

rn o

fR

ace

80

Rit

a C

hin

ch

apt

er

4

Ger

man

Dem

ocr

acy

an

d t

he

Qu

esti

on

of

Dif

fere

nce

, 19

45–19

95

102

Rit

a C

hin

and H

eide

Feh

renbach

ch

apt

er

5

Th

e T

rou

ble

wit

h “

Race

”:

Mig

ran

cy,

Cu

ltu

ral

Dif

fere

nce

,

an

d t

he

Rem

ak

ing o

fE

uro

pe

137

Geo

ffE

ley

Note

s18

3

Sel

ect

Bib

liogra

phy

243

Index

253

Intr

od

uct

ion

Wh

at’

s R

ace

Go

t to

Do

Wit

h I

t?

Po

stw

ar

Ger

man

His

tory

in

Co

nte

xt

Rit

a C

hin

and

Hei

de F

ehre

nbac

h

In J

un

e 2006, ju

st p

rio

r to

th

e st

art

of

the

Wo

rld

Cu

p in

Ger

man

y, t

he

New

Yor

k T

imes

ran

a f

ron

t-p

age

sto

ry o

n a

“su

rge

in r

aci

st m

oo

d”

am

on

g

Ger

man

s att

end

ing s

occ

er e

ven

ts a

nd

an

xio

us

of‹

cials

’ef

fort

s to

dis

cou

r-

age

pu

bli

c d

isp

lays

of

raci

sm b

efo

re a

glo

bal

au

die

nce

. T

he

art

icle

led

wit

h

the

rece

nt

exp

erie

nce

of

Nig

eria

n f

orw

ard

Ad

ebo

wale

Ogu

ngb

ure

, w

ho

, af-

ter

pla

yin

g a

matc

h i

n t

he

east

ern

Ger

man

cit

y o

fH

all

e, w

as

“sp

at

up

on

,

jeer

ed w

ith

raci

al

rem

ark

s, a

nd

mo

cked

wit

h m

on

key

no

ises

”as

he

trie

d t

o

exit

th

e ‹

eld

. “In

reb

uk

e, h

e p

lace

d t

wo

‹n

ger

s u

nd

er h

is n

ose

to

sim

ula

te a

Hit

ler

mu

stach

e an

d t

hru

st h

is a

rm i

n a

Nazi

salu

te.”

1

Alt

ho

ugh

th

e p

ress

rep

ort

su

gges

ted

th

e co

ntr

ary

, th

e ra

cist

beh

avio

r

dir

ecte

d a

t O

gu

ngb

ure

was

hard

ly r

esu

rgen

t o

r u

niq

ue.

Sp

itti

ng,

slu

rs,

an

d

off

ensi

ve

ster

eoty

pes

hav

e a l

on

g t

rad

itio

n i

n t

he

Ger

man

—an

d b

road

er

Eu

ro-A

mer

ican

—ra

cist

rep

erto

ire.

Ogu

ngb

ure

’s w

ord

less

ges

ture

, m

ore

-

over

, gav

e th

e li

e to

raci

sm a

s a w

orr

iso

me

pro

du

ct o

fth

e N

ew E

uro

pe

or

even

th

e n

ew G

erm

an

y. R

ath

er,

his

mim

icry

ef‹

cien

tly s

ugges

ted

co

nti

nu

-

ity w

ith

a l

on

ger

leg

acy

of

raci

st b

ruta

lity

rea

chin

g b

ack

to

th

e T

hir

d

Rei

ch.

In e

ffec

t, h

is r

esp

on

se t

o t

he

an

tib

lack

big

otr

y o

fG

erm

an

so

ccer

fan

s w

as

acc

usa

tory

an

d g

enea

logic

all

y p

reci

se: it

scr

eam

ed “

Nazi

!”an

d la-

bel

ed t

hei

r act

ion

s re

cid

ivis

t h

old

over

s fr

om

a f

an

ati

cal

fasc

ist

past

. Ir

on

i-

call

y, s

ince

his

Hit

ler

mu

stach

e w

as

acc

om

pan

ied

by t

he

rais

ed a

rm o

fa

Nazi

salu

te—

a g

estu

re b

an

ned

in

Ger

man

y—

Ogu

ngb

ure

was

bri

e›y in

ves

-

tigate

d b

y G

erm

an

au

tho

riti

es.

His

to

rmen

ters

, it

ap

pea

rs,

mel

ted

in

to t

he

cro

wd

an

d e

vad

ed l

egal

act

ion

.

Th

e in

cid

ent

on

th

is G

erm

an

pla

yin

g ‹

eld

, o

fco

urs

e, w

as

far

fro

m

Page 3: Chin and Fehrenbach - After the Nazi Racial State (Introduction)

un

iqu

e. D

ista

stef

ul

tau

nti

ng a

nd

ou

trig

ht

raci

st i

nsu

lts

are

part

an

d p

arc

el

of

socc

er c

ult

ure

in

Eu

rop

e. T

he

pro

ble

m h

as

bee

n a

ckn

ow

led

ged

in

th

e

spo

rt s

ince

at

least

1993,

wh

en G

reat

Bri

tain

est

abli

shed

“K

ick

It

Ou

t,”

an

org

an

izati

on

to

‹gh

t ra

cism

in

fo

otb

all

th

rou

gh

ou

t th

e co

un

try.

In

1999,

Fo

otb

all

Again

st R

aci

sm i

n E

uro

pe

was

fou

nd

ed a

s a E

uro

pea

n f

oru

m t

o

com

bat

raci

sm i

n a

ll a

spec

ts o

fth

e sp

ort

. B

ut

the

imp

end

ing W

orl

d C

up

gen

erate

d m

ore

att

enti

on

th

an

usu

al

to “

frie

nd

ly”

matc

hes

lea

din

g u

p t

o

the

tou

rnam

ent

an

d e

xp

ose

d t

he

rou

tin

e an

d c

on

tin

uin

g a

bu

se h

eap

ed o

n

bla

ck p

layer

s in

pro

sta

diu

ms

acr

oss

th

e C

on

tin

ent.

Th

ese

even

ts p

rom

pte

d

Th

ierr

y H

enry

, at

the

tim

e a p

rofe

ssio

nal

pla

yer

fo

r th

e L

on

do

n c

lub

Ars

e-

nal

an

d k

ey m

emb

er o

fth

e F

ren

ch n

ati

on

al

team

, to

in

itia

te a

hig

hly

pu

b-

lici

zed

cam

paig

n u

rgin

g f

an

s to

rej

ect

raci

sm i

n f

oo

tball

wit

h t

he

hel

p o

f

his

co

rpo

rate

sp

on

sor

Nik

e. F

IFA

(F

édér

atio

n I

nte

rnat

ion

ale

de

Fo

otb

all)

reco

gniz

ed t

he

issu

e as

urg

ent

eno

ugh

to

mak

e “N

o t

o r

acis

m”

an o

f‹ci

alsl

ogan

of

the

2006

Wo

rld

Cu

p. G

iven

the

pu

blic

han

d-w

rin

gin

g by

Ger

man

po

litic

ian

s an

d F

IFA

of‹

cial

s, G

erm

any’

s ab

ility

to

avo

id m

ajo

r in

cid

ents

of

ou

trig

ht r

acis

m d

uri

ng

the

mo

nth

lon

g ev

ent w

as a

cau

se fo

r ce

leb

rati

on

.T

he

ach

ieve

men

t se

rved

to

co

n‹

rm t

hat

th

e n

atio

n h

ad i

nd

eed

ove

rco

me

its

pre

vio

us

raci

st t

end

enci

es.

Iro

nic

ally

, th

is s

elf-

con

grat

ula

tory

po

stu

reca

me

at a

mo

men

t w

hen

Isl

amic

xen

op

ho

bia

an

d, t

o a

less

er d

egre

e, a

nti

-se

mit

ism

hav

e ga

ined

incr

easi

ng

curr

ency

in E

uro

pe.

Ack

now

led

gin

g th

e p

reva

len

ce o

fra

cism

in E

uro

pea

n s

occ

er a

nd

th

em

ore

rec

ent

emer

gen

ce o

fa

raci

aliz

ed d

isco

urs

e ar

ou

nd

Mu

slim

im

mi-

gran

ts o

n t

he

Co

nti

nen

t as

a w

ho

le, w

e w

ou

ld a

lso

like

to

su

gges

t th

at t

he

Ogu

ngb

ure

inci

den

t an

d it

s af

term

ath

are

par

ticu

larl

y em

blem

atic

for

Ger

-m

any

in t

he

way

s th

ey i

nvo

ke a

nd

tra

nsg

ress

po

stw

ar t

abo

os

surr

ou

nd

ing

“rac

e”an

d t

he

term

’s a

sso

ciat

ion

wit

h t

he

Th

ird

Rei

ch.

Ifth

e “s

urg

e”o

fra

cist

beh

avio

r in

pu

blic

was

po

rtra

yed

as

Ger

man

y’s

sham

efu

l se

cret

, it

was

als

o l

inke

d t

o t

he

po

st–C

old

War

ch

alle

nge

s co

nfr

on

tin

g th

e u

ni‹

edG

erm

an s

tate

. Co

nte

mp

ora

ry G

erm

an r

acis

m, i

n o

ther

wor

ds, i

s ro

uti

nel

yd

escr

ibed

as

per

pet

rate

d b

y h

oo

ligan

s in

hab

itin

g a

spec

i‹c

geog

rap

hy—

nam

ely,

th

e p

rovi

nce

s o

fth

e fo

rmer

Eas

t G

erm

any.

2It

is c

har

acte

rize

d a

s a

reci

div

ist

imp

uls

e fr

om

th

e G

erm

an m

argi

ns:

th

e p

ersi

sten

t p

sych

olo

gica

lan

d b

ehav

iora

l re

sid

ue

of

eco

no

mic

sta

gnat

ion

, u

nem

plo

ymen

t, a

nd

ap

op

ula

tio

n i

nsu

f‹ci

entl

y so

cial

ized

in

dem

ocr

atic

fo

rms.

Des

pit

e it

s o

ften

neo

fasc

ist

fash

ion

ing,

co

nte

mp

ora

ry G

erm

an r

acis

m h

as b

een

inte

rpre

ted

as t

he

ugl

y le

gacy

of

the

rep

ress

ive

stat

e p

olit

ics

of

soci

alis

m a

nd

th

e u

n-

com

fort

able

ad

just

men

t to

cap

ital

ist

dem

ocr

acy:

so

meh

ow n

ot-

yet

mo

d-

ern

, n

ot-

yet

Wes

tern

, n

ot-

yet

dem

ocr

atic

or

soci

ally

pro

gres

sive

. C

ente

red

2A

fter

th

e N

azi R

acia

l Sta

te

in d

isaf

fect

ed, u

nem

plo

yed

wh

ite

mal

e yo

uth

, it i

s p

erce

ived

by

and

larg

e as

a p

rod

uct

of

the

soci

al m

alai

se a

nd

po

litic

al i

mm

atu

rity

of

the

still

eco

-n

om

ical

ly s

tun

ted

Eas

t.3

Ogu

ngb

ure

’s a

ngr

y ge

stu

res

too

den

ou

nce

d r

acis

m a

s re

cid

ivis

t. I

nco

ntr

ast

to j

ou

rnal

ists

an

d s

oci

al s

cien

tist

s, t

he

socc

er p

laye

r su

gges

ted

con

tem

po

rary

rac

ism

’s o

rigi

ns

in,

and

af‹

nit

ies

wit

h,

Naz

ism

. H

is c

har

gew

as o

ne

of

his

tori

cal c

on

tinu

ity

rath

er th

an r

up

ture

. Bu

t du

e to

the

Fed

eral

Rep

ubl

ic’s

su

cces

sfu

l po

stw

ar c

onv

ersi

on

to

a s

tabl

e d

emo

crac

y, n

ow o

ver

a h

alf

cen

tury

old

, th

is s

tru

ck s

om

e o

bse

rver

s as

im

mo

der

ate,

off

ensi

ve,

and

in

dee

d t

ech

nic

ally

ille

gal.

Ogu

ngb

ure

, u

nlik

e h

is a

ttac

kers

, fe

lt c

om

-p

elle

d t

o a

po

logi

ze: “

I re

gret

wh

at I

did

. . .

I s

ho

uld

hav

e w

alke

d a

way

. I’m

a p

rofe

ssio

nal

, bu

t I’

m a

hu

man

to

o. T

hey

do

n’t

spit

on

dog

s. W

hy s

ho

uld

they

sp

it o

n m

e? I

fel

t lik

e a

no

bo

dy.”

4S

om

e si

xty

year

s af

ter

the

dem

ise

of

the

Th

ird

Rei

ch, e

ven

in t

he

face

of

deh

um

aniz

ing

raci

sm, i

t w

as s

om

ehow

inap

pro

pri

ate

and

his

tori

cally

inac

cura

te t

o t

race

rac

ist

infr

acti

on

s b

ack

to

the

day

s o

fH

itle

r an

d t

her

eby

sugg

est

con

tinu

itie

s o

fra

cial

id

eolo

gy a

nd

pra

ctic

e b

etw

een

th

e N

azi e

ra a

nd

th

e d

emo

crat

ic F

eder

al R

epu

blic

.5A

fter

all,

Ger

man

s—w

het

her

civ

ilian

s o

r sc

ho

lars

—n

o l

on

ger

even

sp

eak

th

ela

ngu

age

of

“rac

e.”

Th

e te

rmR

asse

has

vir

tual

ly d

isap

pea

red

fro

m t

he

Ger

man

lexi

con

an

d p

ubl

ic d

isco

urs

e si

nce

194

5 d

esp

ite

the

per

sist

ence

of

soci

al id

eolo

gies

an

d b

ehav

iors

th

at lo

ok

an

aw

ful l

ot

like

raci

sm.

Rac

ism

, th

eori

sts

agre

e, h

as “

no

sin

gle

char

acte

rist

ic fo

rm”;

alt

ho

ugh

a p

rod

uct

of

mo

der

nit

y, it

s sp

eci‹

c m

anif

esta

tio

ns

and

tar

gets

var

y ac

ross

spac

e an

d t

ime.

6A

fter

Wo

rld

War

II,

his

tori

ans

of

Eu

rop

e an

d t

he

Un

ited

Sta

tes

beg

an t

o b

ifu

rcat

e th

e st

udy

of

raci

sm a

nd

an

tise

mit

ism

, in

eff

ect

trea

tin

g th

ese

as t

wo

dis

tin

ct s

oci

al, p

sych

olo

gica

l, an

d h

isto

rica

l ph

eno

m-

ena.

Th

is s

cho

larl

y re

spo

nse

ech

oed

a b

road

er p

ost

-Ho

loca

ust

tren

d to

dis

-ag

greg

ate

the

his

tori

cal

trea

tmen

t an

d e

xper

ien

ce o

fJe

ws

fro

m t

hat

of

oth

er r

acia

lized

po

pu

lati

on

s, p

arti

cula

rly

tho

se o

fco

lor,

as

dec

olo

niz

atio

nan

d t

he

Am

eric

an c

ivil

righ

ts m

ovem

ent

wer

e ga

inin

g fo

rce.

Th

is a

p-

pro

ach

, mo

reov

er, h

as a

lter

ed c

on

tem

po

rary

un

der

stan

din

gs o

f“r

acis

m,”

a te

rm t

hat

was

co

ined

an

d g

ain

ed c

urr

ency

in t

he

1920

s an

d 1

930s

an

d e

x-p

licit

ly i

nclu

ded

anti

-Jew

ish

dis

crim

inat

ion

in

its

ori

gin

al d

e‹n

itio

n.

Th

ep

ost

war

dis

tin

ctio

n b

etw

een

rac

ism

an

d a

nti

sem

itis

m w

as a

cco

mp

anie

d b

ya

new

so

cial

co

nce

pti

on

of

Jew

s, a

t le

ast

in s

cho

larl

y an

d p

ubl

ic v

enu

es: i

n-

stea

d o

fco

nst

itu

tin

g a

“rac

e”th

ey c

ame

to b

e u

nd

erst

oo

d (

and

cam

e to

un

der

stan

d t

hem

selv

es)

as a

n “

eth

nic

ity.

”A

s th

is e

xam

ple

mak

es e

vid

ent,

no

tio

ns

of

race

an

d e

thn

icit

y ar

e ›

uid

, co

nti

nge

nt,

an

d u

nst

able

. Her

e, w

ew

ant

to in

sist

on

th

e an

alyt

ic v

alu

e o

fex

plo

rin

g p

roce

sses

of

raci

aliz

atio

n

Intr

oduc

tion

3

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bo

th c

om

par

ativ

ely

(acr

oss

gro

up

s) a

nd

his

tori

cally

(ac

ross

th

e 19

45 d

i-vi

de)

.7 Fir

st, t

ho

ugh

, it

seem

s im

po

rtan

t to

off

er s

om

e ru

dim

enta

ry o

bse

rva-

tio

ns

rega

rdin

g o

ur

use

of

the

term

s ra

cean

d e

thni

city

. Eth

nici

tyco

nn

ote

sa

sen

se o

fp

eop

leh

oo

d b

ased

up

on

sh

ared

cu

sto

ms,

lan

guag

e, a

nd

(so

me-

tim

es)

relig

ion

. It

der

ives

fro

m a

“b

elie

fin

co

mm

on

des

cen

t”an

d t

her

efo

rete

nd

s to

be

self

-asc

rib

ed a

nd

em

bra

ced

as

a p

osi

tive

co

llect

ive

iden

tity

.8

Rac

e,o

n th

e o

ther

han

d, i

mp

lies

a “h

ard

er”

or

“dee

per

”se

nse

of

dif

fere

nce

fro

m s

om

e sp

eci‹

ed o

r u

nsp

eci‹

ed n

orm

. U

nlik

e et

hn

icit

y, w

hic

h e

voke

s(a

lth

ou

gh d

oes

n’t

nec

essa

rily

en

act)

an

un

hie

rarc

hic

al s

oci

al l

and

scap

e o

fco

exis

tin

g d

iver

sity

, ra

cial

asc

rip

tio

n i

s at

lea

st i

mp

licit

ly h

iera

rch

ical

an

dth

eref

ore

in

itia

lly i

mp

ose

d f

rom

wit

ho

ut.

Rac

e, l

ike

eth

nic

ity,

is

an i

deo

l-og

y th

at a

chie

ves

po

litic

al, s

oci

al, a

nd

psy

cho

logi

cal e

xpre

ssio

n v

ia in

stit

u-

tio

ns,

str

uct

ure

s o

fth

ink

ing,

so

cial

po

licy,

an

d s

oci

al p

ract

ice.

It

ther

eby

pro

fou

nd

ly a

ffec

ts t

he

raci

aliz

ed s

ub

ject

’s li

fe. R

ace

do

esn’

t ex

ist

in n

atu

re;

rath

er, g

rou

ps

beco

me

raci

aliz

edw

hen

th

eir

dif

fere

nce

is r

egis

tere

d a

nd

in-

vest

ed w

ith

hei

ghte

ned

neg

ativ

e so

cial

mea

nin

g. R

ace

dif

fers

fro

m e

thn

ic-

ity,

th

en,

in t

he

per

ceiv

ed i

nte

nsi

ty,

char

acte

r, a

nd

im

plic

atio

ns

of

its

dif

-fe

ren

ce.

As

his

tori

an G

eorg

e F

red

eric

kso

n p

ut

it,

race

“is

wh

at h

app

ens

wh

en e

thn

icit

y is

dee

med

ess

enti

al o

r in

del

ible

,”in

nat

e, h

ered

itar

y, t

ran

s-ge

ner

atio

nal

, u

nch

ange

able

, in

erad

icab

le,

and

mo

st o

fal

l u

nas

sim

ilabl

e.W

hile

fre

qu

entl

y ju

sti‹

ed b

y a

feti

shis

tic

focu

s o

n s

kin

co

lor

or

oth

er p

he-

no

typ

ical

tra

its

per

ceiv

ed a

s m

arke

rs o

fp

olit

ical

, so

cial

, phy

sica

l, in

telle

c-tu

al,

or

mo

ral

infe

rio

rity

, “r

ace”

—in

th

e ey

es o

fth

e co

nte

mp

ora

ry b

e-h

old

er—

nee

d n

ot

be

emb

od

ied

or

bio

logi

zed

in w

ays

char

acte

rist

ic o

fth

e“o

ld r

acis

ms”

pri

or

to 1

945.

Rat

her

, rac

ializ

ed t

hin

kin

g ca

n b

e fo

un

d in

in-

stit

uti

on

al p

atte

rns,

po

licie

s, s

oci

al p

ract

ices

, an

d b

ehav

iors

th

at t

arge

t,st

igm

atiz

e, t

reat

as

un

equ

al, e

xclu

de,

or

adve

rsel

y af

fect

ind

ivid

ual

s o

n t

he

bas

is o

fth

eir

per

ceiv

ed e

thn

ora

cial

mem

ber

ship

, “e

ven

if

cons

ciou

sb

elie

fth

at t

hey

are

infe

rio

r o

r u

nw

ort

hy is

ab

sen

t.”9

Th

e O

gun

gbu

re c

ase,

of

cou

rse,

is

on

ly o

ne

of

cou

ntl

ess

exam

ple

s o

f“r

ace”

and

rac

ializ

ed t

hin

kin

g th

at h

ave

surf

aced

in

co

nte

mp

ora

ry G

er-

man

y—fr

om

th

e so

-cal

led

Mu

slim

tes

t d

evel

op

ed b

y th

e B

aden

-Wü

rtte

m-

ber

g n

atu

raliz

atio

n o

f‹ce

an

d t

hat

sam

e st

ate’

s b

an o

fth

e h

ead

scar

f, t

o t

he

rece

nt

jud

gmen

ts h

and

ed d

own

fo

r an

att

ack

on

eig

ht

Ind

ian

men

in

th

eea

ster

n to

wn

of

geln

, an

d e

ven

to th

e n

ow p

reva

len

t pu

blic

an

xiet

y ov

erth

e cl

ash

bet

wee

n J

ud

eo-C

hri

stia

n a

nd

Mu

slim

civ

iliza

tio

ns.

In

dee

d,

it i

sn

o e

xagg

erat

ion

to

say

th

at “

race

”is

a v

erit

able

mov

ing

targ

et i

n c

urr

ent

Ger

man

pu

blic

dis

cou

rse.

Fo

r p

reci

sely

th

is r

easo

n,

we

do

no

t as

pir

e to

4A

fter

th

e N

azi R

acia

l Sta

te

pro

vid

e an

on

-th

e-sp

ot,

co

mp

reh

ensi

ve a

nal

ysis

of

“rac

e”in

th

e p

rese

nt

con

jun

ctu

re. R

ath

er, w

e se

ek t

o c

ou

nte

r th

e lo

ng-

do

min

ant

and

un

spo

ken

assu

mp

tio

n t

hat

th

e p

robl

em o

f“r

ace”

dis

app

eare

d a

t th

e le

vel

of

pu

blic

dis

cou

rse

and

po

licy-

mak

ing

wit

h t

he

def

eat

of

the

Th

ird

Rei

ch.1

0T

his

as-

sum

pti

on

has

mad

e it

mo

re d

if‹

cult

to p

erce

ive

the

raci

aliz

ed r

esp

on

se th

atu

nd

erlie

s m

uch

of

the

con

tem

po

rary

deb

ate

in G

erm

any

aro

un

d i

mm

i-gr

ants

an

d a

sylu

m s

eeke

rs,

Tu

rks,

Jew

s, a

nd

oth

er n

ativ

e m

ino

riti

es.

Ou

rgo

al,

then

, is

to

tra

ce t

he

thre

ad o

fco

nti

nuit

y ac

ross

th

e 19

45 d

ivid

e an

dso

rt t

hro

ugh

key

an

alyt

ical

cat

ego

ries

in

ord

er t

o h

elp

bet

ter

un

der

stan

dth

e cu

rren

t dis

cou

rse

and

the

way

s it

is im

plic

ated

wit

h “

race

.”In

the

pag

esth

at fo

llow

, we

ask

a n

um

ber

of

bas

ic, y

et c

ruci

al q

ues

tio

ns:

How

an

d w

hen

did

“ra

ce”

bec

om

e ta

bo

o i

n G

erm

any?

Why

has

it

dis

app

eare

d a

s a

sign

i‹ca

nt

cate

gory

fo

r u

nd

erst

and

ing

Ger

man

so

ciet

y si

nce

194

5? A

nd

per

hap

s m

ost

im

po

rtan

t, w

hat

are

th

e so

cial

an

d e

pis

tem

ic c

on

seq

uen

ces

of

this

det

erm

ined

ret

reat

fro

m “

race

”?

Race

and R

uptu

re:

Inte

rrogati

ng t

he

Stu

nde N

ull

Ove

r th

e la

st t

wo

dec

ades

, h

isto

rian

s o

fG

erm

any

hav

e sy

stem

atic

ally

de-

con

stru

cted

th

e m

yth

of

“zer

o h

ou

r,”ar

guin

g fo

r th

e nu

mer

ou

s w

ays

inw

hic

h 1

945

did

no

t an

d c

ou

ld n

ot

rep

rese

nt

an a

bso

lute

ru

ptu

re f

rom

all

that

cam

e b

efo

re.

We

now

tak

e fo

r gr

ante

d t

hat

Wes

t G

erm

any

did

no

tem

erge

su

i ge

ner

is f

rom

th

e ru

ins

of

war

an

d o

ccu

pat

ion

, th

at i

ts s

oci

ety,

po

litic

s, a

nd

cu

ltu

re c

an o

nly

be

fully

un

der

sto

od

as

par

t of

the

lon

ger

con

-ti

nuu

m o

fG

erm

an h

isto

ry. T

his

per

spec

tive

, fo

r ex

amp

le, h

as m

ade

it p

os-

sibl

e to

gra

sp t

he

mu

ltip

le m

ean

ings

of

1945

. T

he

arm

isti

ce o

f8

May

, o

nth

e o

ne

han

d, t

erm

inat

ed t

he

war

in E

uro

pe

and

sp

elle

d t

he

colla

pse

of

the

Th

ird

Rei

ch.

Th

e su

bse

qu

ent

occ

up

atio

n p

erio

d (

1945

–49)

res

ult

ed i

n t

he

esta

blis

hm

ent

of

two

Ger

man

sta

tes

and

hel

ped

ush

er t

he

new

Fed

eral

Re-

pu

blic

in

to t

he

Wes

tern

alli

ance

. O

rdin

ary

Ger

man

s, o

n t

he

oth

er h

and

,d

id n

ot

per

ceiv

e an

en

d t

o t

he

war

so

mu

ch w

ith

th

e si

gnin

g o

fth

ear

mis

tice

, bu

t ra

ther

wit

h t

he

intr

od

uct

ion

of

the

new

cu

rren

cy a

nd

im

-p

end

ing

div

isio

n o

fth

eir

nat

ion

. A

nd

man

y ex

per

ien

ced

194

5 as

th

e m

o-

men

t w

hen

on

e re

pre

ssiv

e re

gim

e (H

itle

r’s

dic

tato

rsh

ip)

was

rep

lace

d b

yan

oth

er (

Alli

ed o

ccu

pat

ion

).1

1

Yet

in

ter

ms

of

the

all-

imp

ort

ant

qu

esti

on

of

race

, as

sum

pti

on

s o

fa

Stu

nde

null

rem

ain

larg

ely

un

chal

len

ged

. Th

e T

hir

d R

eich

, sch

ola

rs a

gree

,w

as a

hyp

erra

cial

ized

so

ciet

y. V

irtu

ally

eve

ry a

spec

t o

flif

e w

as d

eter

min

ed

Intr

oduc

tion

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by N

azi r

ace

thin

kin

g; a

t it

s m

ost

ext

rem

e, t

he

stat

e m

ade

dec

isio

ns

abo

ut

the

fate

of

its

citi

zen

s—an

d d

uri

ng

the

war

, its

Eu

rop

ean

su

bje

cts—

bas

edo

n r

acia

l ca

tego

ries

an

d d

isti

nct

ion

s. A

t th

e sa

me

tim

e, m

ost

his

tori

ans

hav

e o

per

ated

on

th

e u

nsp

oke

n a

ssu

mp

tio

n t

hat

th

e p

robl

em o

fra

ce d

is-

app

eare

d a

fter

the

Naz

i def

eat,

re›

exiv

ely

acce

pti

ng

that

the

po

stw

ar ta

bo

oag

ain

st t

he

term

Ras

seal

so m

ean

t th

e q

ues

tio

n o

fh

ow t

o d

e‹n

e an

d d

eal

wit

h d

iffe

ren

ce w

as n

o lo

nge

r ce

ntr

al. T

his

bo

ok

, by

con

tras

t, w

ants

to

in-

sist

th

at t

he

sam

e ch

alle

nge

s to

th

e ze

ro h

ou

r th

esis

lev

eled

in

oth

er a

reas

of

his

tori

cal a

nal

ysis

als

o a

pp

ly t

o t

he

issu

es o

fra

ce a

nd

dif

fere

nce

.A

s a

‹rs

t ste

p, o

ur

inte

rven

tio

n s

eek

s to

dem

on

stra

te th

at th

e q

ues

tio

no

fra

ce r

emai

ned

at

the

very

cen

ter

of

soci

al p

olic

y an

d c

olle

ctiv

e im

agin

a-ti

on

du

rin

g th

e o

ccu

pat

ion

yea

rs,

as t

he

wes

tern

Alli

es w

ork

ed t

o d

emo

c-ra

tize

Ger

man

y, a

nd

du

rin

g th

e B

on

n R

epu

blic

. O

ur

goal

is

to b

egin

to

trac

e th

e d

evel

op

men

t o

fra

ce a

nd

eth

nic

ity

deb

ates

aft

er t

he

colla

pse

of

the

Th

ird

Rei

ch’s

rac

ial s

tate

, exp

lori

ng

how

an

d in

wh

at fo

rms

thes

e is

sues

resu

rfac

ed a

nd

wer

e re

con

stit

ute

d in

th

e p

ost

-194

5 p

erio

d, e

ven

as

exp

licit

pu

blic

dis

cuss

ion

of

“rac

e”gr

adu

ally

su

bsi

ded

an

d G

erm

ans

bec

ame

ha-

bit

uat

ed t

o d

emo

crat

ic f

orm

s an

d p

ract

ices

. Ou

r p

rim

ary

focu

s is

th

e F

ed-

eral

R

epu

blic

o

fG

erm

any—

“Wes

t G

erm

any”

pri

or

to

un

i‹ca

tio

n

in19

90—

for

bo

th p

ract

ical

an

d a

nal

ytic

al p

urp

ose

s. B

ecau

se o

fit

s st

atu

s as

the

Ger

man

su

cces

sor

stat

e, it

s h

isto

riog

rap

hy a

t th

e m

om

ent

is s

om

ewh

atd

eep

er a

nd

ric

her

th

an t

hat

of

the

now

def

un

ct G

erm

an D

emo

crat

ic R

e-p

ubl

ic. T

his

sam

e st

atu

s, m

ore

over

, co

nvin

ces

us

that

it is

urg

ent

to e

xplo

reth

e h

isto

rica

l dyn

amic

s an

d m

yth

olo

gies

th

at h

ave

pro

du

ced

an

d s

ust

ain

edit

s d

emo

crat

ic p

olit

y an

d c

ult

ure

. N

on

eth

eles

s, o

ur

intr

od

uct

ion

is

in-

ten

ded

as

a cl

ario

n c

all f

or

com

par

ativ

e an

d c

on

text

ual

ized

ap

pro

ach

es t

oth

e st

udy

of

the

po

stw

ar p

erio

d,

and

we

ind

icat

e in

wh

at f

ollo

ws

ou

rd

esid

erat

a fo

r th

e re

con

cep

tual

izat

ion

of

con

tem

po

rary

Ger

man

an

d E

u-

rop

ean

his

tory

, bo

th W

est

and

Eas

t.W

hile

th

is i

ntr

od

uct

ion

ske

tch

es o

ut

a ra

ther

am

bit

iou

s p

rogr

am o

fh

isto

riog

rap

hic

al r

eori

enta

tio

n,

the

follo

win

g th

ree

chap

ters

pre

sen

t sy

n-

thet

ic s

um

mar

ies

of

som

e o

fth

e in

nov

ativ

e ar

gum

ents

of

ou

r re

cen

t re

-se

arch

on

Bla

ck G

erm

ans,

Jew

s, a

nd

im

mig

ran

t T

urk

s af

ter

1945

.12

Th

eai

m o

fo

ur

colla

bo

rati

on

is

to h

igh

ligh

t, i

n a

bbre

viat

ed f

orm

, an

d b

rin

gin

to d

ialo

gue

wit

h e

ach

oth

er s

om

e o

fth

e h

isto

rica

l wo

rk t

hat

has

alr

eady

bee

n d

on

e to

exp

lore

pro

cess

es o

fra

cial

izat

ion

an

d d

emo

crat

izat

ion

in

po

stw

ar G

erm

any.

In

do

ing

so,

we

ho

pe

to d

emo

nst

rate

th

e n

ew p

ersp

ec-

tive

s o

pen

ed u

p b

y su

ch a

focu

s.

Ch

apte

r 1,

by

Hei

de

Feh

ren

bac

h,

trac

es t

he

po

stw

ar “

dev

olu

tio

n”

of

6A

fter

th

e N

azi R

acia

l Sta

te

the

Naz

i rac

ial s

tate

. It

follo

ws

the

shif

tin

g la

ngu

age

and

tax

on

om

y o

fra

ceac

ross

th

e 19

45 d

ivid

e w

ith

in G

erm

any,

inv

esti

gati

ng

the

imp

act

of

inte

r-n

atio

nal

imp

uls

es—

esp

ecia

lly s

egre

gati

on

ist

U.S

. mili

tary

po

licie

s an

d li

b-

eral

izin

g A

mer

ican

so

cial

sci

ence

—o

n p

ost

war

ref

orm

ula

tio

ns

of

raci

alp

olic

y an

d p

ract

ice

in W

est

Ger

man

so

ciet

y. D

iscu

ssio

ns

rega

rdin

g p

ost

-w

ar o

ccu

pat

ion

ch

ildre

n o

fco

lor,

Feh

ren

bac

h a

rgu

es,

wer

e cr

uci

al i

n r

e-co

nst

itu

tin

g n

oti

on

s o

fra

ce i

n W

est

Ger

man

y, s

hif

tin

g th

e te

rms

of

po

st-

war

deb

ate

abo

ut

race

aw

ay f

rom

Jew

ish

nes

s an

d t

owar

d a

bla

ck-w

hit

eb

inar

y.

Ch

apte

r 2,

by

Ati

na

Gro

ssm

ann

, exa

min

es h

ow J

ews

bec

ame Auslän-

der

in p

ost

war

Wes

t G

erm

any.

Fo

cusi

ng

on

Eas

t E

uro

pea

n J

ewis

h H

olo

-ca

ust

su

rviv

ors

wh

o r

esid

ed in

th

e d

isp

lace

d p

erso

ns

(DP

) ca

mp

s o

fo

ccu

-p

ied

Ger

man

y, i

t co

nsi

der

s th

e w

ays

in w

hic

h v

icti

ms

of

the

Th

ird

Rei

chw

ere

qu

ick

ly c

ast

as p

aras

itic

“fo

reig

ner

s,”

wh

o t

hre

aten

ed t

o s

iph

on

off

pre

cio

us

reso

urc

es.

Ger

man

s in

sist

entl

y re

mem

ber

ed t

hei

r ow

n v

icti

miz

a-ti

on

an

d r

efu

sed

to

rec

ogn

ize

thei

r n

ew/o

ld p

reju

dic

es a

nd

res

entm

ents

as

anti

sem

itis

m,

in p

art

bec

ause

no

tio

ns

of

dif

fere

nce

wer

e re

cast

in

th

e la

n-

guag

e o

fre

sou

rces

an

d “

righ

ts.”

Ch

apte

r 3,

by

Rit

a C

hin

, sh

ifts

tem

po

ral

fram

es t

o c

on

sid

er T

urk

ish

gues

t w

ork

ers

du

rin

g th

e ea

rly

1980

s, a

mo

men

t w

hen

pu

blic

deb

ates

beg

anto

ack

now

led

ge t

hat

tw

o m

illio

n f

ore

ign

ers

and

th

eir

fam

ilies

now

co

nst

i-tu

ted

im

mig

ran

ts i

n t

he

Fed

eral

Rep

ubl

ic.

It e

xam

ines

co

nse

rvat

ive

and

pro

gres

sive

idea

s ab

ou

t Ausländer

and

inte

grat

ion

. Wh

ile G

erm

an c

on

ser-

vati

ves

ten

ded

to

see

mig

ran

t cu

ltu

re a

s ti

mel

ess,

ess

enti

al, a

nd

‹xe

d, t

hei

rlib

eral

co

un

terp

arts

gen

eral

ly in

sist

ed o

n th

e m

uta

bili

ty o

fm

igra

nt c

ult

ure

.Y

et b

oth

pat

tern

s o

fth

ou

ght

and

dis

cou

rse

cam

e to

em

ph

asiz

e in

com

-m

ensu

rabl

e d

iffe

ren

ces

bet

wee

n T

urk

ish

an

d G

erm

an c

ult

ure

s an

d u

lti-

mat

ely

trea

ted

inte

grat

ion

as

a o

ne-

way

pro

cess

. Th

rou

gh t

hes

e ca

se s

tud

-ie

s, it

is p

oss

ible

to

glim

pse

th

e o

utl

ines

of

po

stw

ar W

est

Ger

man

y’s

effo

rts

to b

oth

red

e‹n

e an

d d

eal

wit

h d

iffe

ren

ce a

cro

ss t

hre

e d

isti

nct

min

ori

tygr

ou

ps.

Bu

t th

is i

s ju

st a

sta

rt.

Ou

r h

op

e is

th

at t

he

pic

ture

will

bec

om

em

ore

det

aile

d a

nd

nu

ance

d t

hro

ugh

th

e w

ork

of

oth

er s

cho

lars

.T

he

‹n

al t

wo

ch

apte

rs in

th

is v

olu

me

are,

like

th

is in

tro

du

ctio

n, m

ore

inte

rpre

tive

in c

har

acte

r an

d o

ffer

rea

pp

rais

als

of

sign

i‹ca

nt d

evel

op

men

tsin

po

stw

ar G

erm

an a

nd

Eu

rop

ean

his

tory

. C

hap

ter

4, b

y R

ita

Ch

in a

nd

Hei

de

Feh

ren

bac

h,

revi

sits

so

me

mile

sto

ne

mo

men

ts i

n t

he

his

tory

of

the

Fed

eral

Rep

ubl

ic fr

om

194

5 th

rou

gh th

e ea

rly

1990

s in

ord

er to

trac

e th

e in

-te

rco

nn

ecti

on

s (s

om

etim

es e

xplic

it, b

ut

mo

stly

imp

licit

) b

etw

een

th

e sh

ift-

ing

way

s G

erm

ans

un

der

sto

od

dem

ocr

acy—

as s

ecu

red

by

eco

no

mic

rec

ov-

Introduction

7

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ery,

ach

ieve

d t

hro

ugh

a c

on

dem

nat

ion

of

fasc

ism

an

d c

apit

alis

m,

earn

edth

rou

gh h

isto

rica

l co

mm

emo

rati

on

—an

d t

hei

r co

nce

pti

on

s o

fd

iffe

ren

ce.

Th

e es

say

also

ex

plo

res

un

i‹ca

tio

n

and

it

s af

term

ath

—in

clu

din

g th

esp

eci‹

c an

alyt

ical

ter

ms

that

Ger

man

so

cial

sci

enti

sts

and

th

e m

edia

de-

plo

yed

to

tes

t th

e d

emo

crat

ic s

tab

ility

of

the

exp

and

ed F

eder

al R

epu

blic

and

that

min

ori

ty in

telle

ctu

als

use

d t

o il

lum

inat

e u

ni‹

ed G

erm

any’

s u

nac

-k

now

led

ged

eth

no

nat

ion

al s

elf-

con

cep

tio

n.

Fin

ally

, ch

apte

r 5,

by

Geo

ffE

ley,

bro

aden

s th

e ge

ogra

ph

ical

len

s, a

r-gu

ing

that

oth

er W

este

rn E

uro

pea

n c

ou

ntr

ies

also

ab

sorb

ed t

he

less

on

s o

fth

e G

erm

an H

olo

cau

st a

nd

sh

ied

aw

ay f

rom

th

e la

ngu

age

of

race

in

th

ed

ecad

es a

fter

194

5. S

om

e, li

ke F

ran

ce, a

pp

eale

d t

o a

lon

ger

trad

itio

n o

fre

-p

ubl

ican

un

iver

salis

m t

hat

em

erge

d f

rom

th

e E

nlig

hte

nm

ent

and

Fre

nch

Rev

olu

tio

n, e

ven

as

they

rep

eate

dly

rei

nsc

rib

ed r

acia

l dif

fere

nce

in th

eir

so-

cial

an

d p

olit

ical

co

nce

pti

on

s o

fco

lon

ials

an

d p

ost

colo

nia

ls a

cro

ss t

he

pas

t tw

o c

entu

ries

. Ele

y th

en t

urn

s to

Bri

tain

to

exp

lore

in m

ore

det

ail h

ow“r

ace”

as a

cen

tral

cat

ego

ry o

fan

alys

is e

mer

ged

on

ly ‹

tfu

lly f

rom

th

e n

eo-

Mar

xist

thin

kin

g o

fm

ost

ly m

ino

rity

inte

llect

ual

s lik

e S

tuar

t Hal

l an

d P

aul

Gilr

oy,

wh

ose

th

eori

zin

g ga

ined

in

tern

atio

nal

in

›u

ence

by

the

1980

s an

db

eyo

nd

. In

tra

cin

g th

e an

alyt

ical

tu

rn t

owar

d “

race

”ov

er t

he

pas

t co

up

leo

fd

ecad

es,

Ele

y tr

ain

s a

crit

ical

eye

on

dis

cuss

ion

s o

fE

uro

pea

n c

ult

ure

and

co

mm

on

alit

y as

wel

l as

th

e re

cen

t em

bra

ce o

fan

ti-I

slam

icis

m i

n e

f-fo

rts

to c

on

solid

ate

Eu

rop

ean

iden

tity

.It

is

imp

ort

ant

to b

e cl

ear

that

th

is b

oo

k b

y n

o m

ean

s re

pre

sen

ts t

he

‹rs

t at

tem

pt

to a

ddre

ss t

he

con

tinu

itie

s o

fra

cism

an

d x

eno

ph

ob

ia in

Ger

-m

an h

isto

ry.

Min

ori

ty w

rite

rs,

inte

llect

ual

s, a

nd

sch

ola

rs h

ave

bee

n c

om

-m

enti

ng

on

the

pro

cess

es a

nd

eff

ects

of

raci

aliz

atio

n in

co

nte

mp

ora

ry G

er-

man

so

ciet

y si

nce

th

e m

id-1

970s

. A

s ea

rly

as 1

973,

Ara

s Ö

ren

pu

blis

hed

po

ems

that

hig

hlig

hte

d t

he

way

s in

wh

ich

ass

um

pti

on

s o

fes

sen

tial

eth

nic

dif

fere

nce

pre

ven

ted

Ger

man

an

d T

urk

ish

wo

rker

s fr

om

rec

ogn

izin

g th

eir

shar

ed o

pp

ress

ion

wit

hin

th

e ca

pit

alis

t sy

stem

of

pro

du

ctio

n.1

3M

ay A

yim

and

Kat

har

ina

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nto

ye w

rote

Far

be b

eken

nen

in 1

988

wit

h t

he

exp

licit

pu

rpo

se o

fex

po

sin

g “t

he

soci

al u

nd

erp

inn

ings

of

raci

sm”

and

dem

on

-st

rati

ng

that

th

e in

visi

bili

ty o

fA

fro

-Ger

man

s w

as a

“co

nse

qu

ence

of

the

sup

pre

ssio

n o

fG

erm

an h

isto

ry.”

14

In t

he

mo

nth

s af

ter

the

fall

of

the

Ber

lin W

all,

Zaf

er S

eno

cak

po

inte

d t

o t

he

raci

aliz

ing

effe

cts

of

the

Fed

eral

Rep

ubl

ic’s

cit

izen

ship

law

, wh

ich

co

nti

nued

to

tre

at G

erm

an d

esce

nt

as t

he

cru

cial

cri

teri

on

fo

r ci

tize

nsh

ip.

Th

is r

esid

ue

of

gen

ealo

gica

l th

ink

ing,

he

ob

serv

ed, m

ean

t th

at e

thn

ic G

erm

ans

fro

m E

aste

rn E

uro

pe

wit

h o

nly

dis

-ta

nt

fam

ily t

ies

to G

erm

any

and

lit

tle

abili

ty t

o s

pea

k t

he

lan

guag

e w

ere

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fter

th

e N

azi R

acia

l Sta

te

con

sid

ered

Ger

man

, w

hile

sec

on

d-

or

thir

d-g

ener

atio

n T

urk

s w

ho

kn

ewG

erm

an b

ette

r th

an T

urk

ish

rem

ain

ed p

erp

etu

al fo

reig

ner

s.1

5

Des

pit

e th

eir

tren

chan

t cr

itiq

ues

, th

ese

auth

ors

hav

e ge

ner

ally

go

ne

un

reco

gniz

ed b

y m

ost

Ger

man

his

tori

ans.

Par

t o

fth

e p

robl

em is

th

at t

hei

rw

riti

ng

has

bee

n c

ateg

ori

zed

as

“fo

reig

ner

lit

erat

ure

.”T

his

des

ign

atio

nm

arke

d t

hei

r te

xts

as p

rim

arily

of

inte

rest

to

lite

rary

sch

ola

rs. I

t al

so r

ele-

gate

d t

hei

r w

ork

to

“m

igra

tio

n”

or

“min

ori

ty”

stu

die

s, ‹

eld

s o

ften

per

-ce

ived

as

mar

gin

al t

o t

he

mai

n c

urr

ents

of

mo

der

n G

erm

an h

isto

ry. T

hes

eim

po

rtan

t ea

rly

effo

rts

to e

nga

ge t

he

qu

esti

on

of

race

an

d t

o in

sist

on

th

eco

nti

nued

rel

evan

ce o

fra

cial

ass

um

pti

on

s in

th

e F

eder

al R

epu

blic

hav

eth

us

faile

d t

o r

egis

ter

as in

tegr

al t

o o

ur

un

der

stan

din

g o

fG

erm

an s

oci

ety,

po

litic

s, a

nd

cu

ltu

re in

th

e p

ost

war

per

iod

.F

or t

he f

utu

re, a

th

oro

ugh

un

pac

kin

g o

fth

e ze

ro h

our

th

esis

in t

erm

so

fra

ce a

nd

dif

fere

nce

wo

uld

inv

olv

e fu

rth

er i

nte

rven

tio

ns

in t

he

bro

ader

‹el

d o

fm

od

ern

Ger

man

his

tory

th

at c

an o

nly

be

gest

ure

d a

t h

ere.

Fir

stan

d f

ore

mo

st,

this

tas

k w

ou

ld r

equ

ire

con

sid

erin

g co

nti

nuit

ies

acro

ss t

he

1945

div

ide.

It

is w

ort

h p

oin

tin

g o

ut

that

a s

ign

i‹ca

nt,

au

tho

rita

tive

his

tor-

ical

lite

ratu

re h

as e

mer

ged

th

at in

vest

igat

es c

on

tinu

itie

s in

rac

ializ

ed t

hin

k-

ing

and

so

cial

po

licy

fro

m t

he

Imp

eria

l p

erio

d,

incl

ud

ing

colo

nia

lism

,th

rou

gh t

he

Wei

mar

Rep

ubl

ic in

toth

e T

hir

d R

eich

.16

Th

e q

ues

tio

n o

fco

n-

tinu

ity

has

bee

n t

aken

up

by

loo

kin

g b

ack

war

d f

rom

th

e 19

30s

to e

arlie

rd

ecad

es a

nd

acr

oss

pri

or

po

litic

al r

egim

es. I

n r

ecen

t ye

ars,

his

tori

ans

hav

eex

hib

ited

a g

reat

dea

l of

inte

rest

in tr

acin

g th

e ev

olu

tio

n o

fG

erm

an r

acis

man

d it

s m

ob

iliza

tio

n b

y th

e G

erm

an s

tate

th

rou

gh t

he

last

day

s o

fth

e N

azi

regi

me.

A p

rim

ary

con

cern

is

to t

est

the

rad

ical

ism

of

Nat

ion

al S

oci

alis

tp

olic

ies

tow

ard

Ger

man

an

d E

uro

pea

n m

ino

riti

es,

wh

ich

em

erge

d f

rom

alo

nge

r h

isto

rica

l co

mm

itm

ent

to r

acia

l h

iera

rch

ies

and

eu

gen

ic p

ract

ices

,an

d c

ulm

inat

ed i

n s

tate

-man

dat

ed s

teri

lizat

ion

, m

edic

al e

xper

imen

tati

on

,an

d m

ass

mu

rder

. Bu

t th

e q

ues

tio

n o

fco

nti

nuit

y al

so n

eed

s to

be

po

sed

for

the

per

iod

aft

er 1

945.

Wh

ile t

he

mo

st e

greg

iou

s ra

cial

ized

vio

len

ce o

fth

eN

azi

regi

me

ceas

ed w

ith

def

eat,

Cla

ud

ia K

oo

nz

has

su

gges

ted

th

at o

ther

,m

ore

loca

lized

an

d e

very

day

pra

ctic

es w

ere

no

t ro

ote

d o

ut

so e

asily

. Wh

at,

in o

ther

wo

rds,

hap

pen

ed t

o t

he

ever

yday

rac

ism

th

at w

as a

lso

ver

y m

uch

ap

art

of

Ger

man

so

cial

lif

e, s

oci

al p

olic

y, a

nd

th

e so

cial

im

agin

ary

du

rin

gth

e T

hir

d R

eich

?17

Pio

nee

rin

g w

ork

has

beg

un

on

th

is q

ues

tio

n,

but

its

cen

tral

in

sigh

tsan

d c

riti

cal

app

roac

h h

ave

yet

to b

e in

tegr

ated

in

to s

ynth

etic

acc

ou

nts

of

mo

der

n G

erm

an h

isto

ry. T

hu

s fa

r, s

tud

ies

that

hav

e ra

ised

the

issu

e o

fra

ceaf

ter

1945

hav

e p

rim

arily

fo

cuse

d o

n p

ost

war

Ger

man

in

tera

ctio

ns

wit

h,

Intr

oduc

tion

9

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and

res

po

nse

s to

, Am

eric

an c

ult

ure

an

d A

mer

ican

mili

tary

occ

up

atio

n. I

nh

er s

tudy

of

the

reco

nst

ruct

ion

of

nat

ion

al i

den

tity

an

d g

end

er n

orm

s in

the

two

po

stw

ar G

erm

an s

tate

s, U

ta P

oig

er e

xplo

res

the

soci

al a

nd

cu

ltu

ral

thre

ats

that

th

e im

po

rt a

nd

yo

uth

ful

con

sum

pti

on

of

“bla

ck”

Am

eric

anm

usi

c lik

e ja

zz a

nd

ro

ck ’n

’ro

ll re

pre

sen

ted

to b

oth

Eas

t an

d W

est G

erm

anau

tho

riti

es. I

n d

etai

ling

the

conv

erge

nce

s an

d d

iver

gen

ces

of

this

Co

ld W

ard

ialo

gue

abo

ut

the

mea

nin

g o

fA

mer

ican

cu

ltu

ral

form

s fo

r “G

erm

an-

nes

s,”

Po

iger

exp

ose

s co

nti

nuit

ies

in e

uge

nic

lan

guag

e an

d r

acis

t ste

reo

typ

eac

ross

194

5 in

bo

th G

erm

an s

tate

s an

d t

her

eby

hig

hlig

hts

th

e ra

cial

ized

con

ten

t o

fso

cial

an

d c

ult

ura

l re

con

stru

ctio

n.

Mari

a H

öh

n,

on

th

e o

ther

han

d,

con

sid

ers

gro

un

d-l

evel

so

cial

inte

ract

ion

s b

etw

een

Ger

man

civ

ilia

ns

an

d A

mer

ican

so

ldie

rs i

n w

este

rn G

erm

an

y. S

he

pay

s sp

ecia

l att

enti

on

to

inte

rraci

al

(bla

ck-w

hit

e) s

exu

al

frate

rniz

ati

on

, in

clu

din

g t

he

ho

stil

e re

cep

-

tio

n i

t p

rovo

ked

am

on

g G

erm

an

s an

d A

mer

ican

s ali

ke,

an

d u

ltim

ate

ly

sho

ws

ho

w A

mer

ican

pra

ctic

es o

fra

ce w

ere

tran

sfer

red

to

Ger

man

garr

i-

son

to

wn

s in

th

e fo

rm

of

raci

all

y

segre

gate

d

bars

an

d

ente

rtain

men

t

ven

ues

. H

eid

e F

ehre

nb

ach

exam

ines

tra

nsn

ati

on

al

deb

ate

s re

gard

ing t

he

“m

ixed

-race

”ch

ild

ren

of

po

stw

ar

frate

rniz

ati

on

bet

wee

n b

lack

tro

op

s an

d

wh

ite

Ger

man

wo

men

fro

m t

he

end

of

the

war

thro

ugh

ab

ou

t 19

60,

sug-

ges

tin

g t

hat

resp

on

ses

to t

he

chil

dre

n w

ere

cen

tral

to t

he

ideo

logic

al

tran

-

siti

on

fro

m N

ati

on

al S

oci

ali

st t

o d

emo

crati

c ap

pro

ach

es t

o r

ace

an

d, m

ore

-

over

, th

at

thes

e ea

rly y

ears

hel

ped

sh

ap

e co

nte

mp

ora

ry G

erm

an

raci

al

un

der

stan

din

g.

Her

ess

ay i

n t

his

vo

lum

e co

mp

are

s th

e ra

cial

typ

olo

gie

s o

f

the

Nazi

per

iod

wit

h t

ho

se t

hat

emer

ged

un

der

U.S

. o

ccu

pati

on

, w

hil

e

Ati

na G

ross

man

n’s

pie

ce,

lik

e h

er r

ecen

t b

oo

k,

hig

hli

gh

ts t

he

ever

yd

ay

way

s in

wh

ich

an

tise

mit

ic p

reju

dic

es (

re)s

urf

ace

d d

uri

ng t

he

inte

rreg

nu

m.1

8

Mo

re r

ecen

tly,

th

e em

ergen

t b

od

y o

fw

ork

aro

un

d g

ues

t w

ork

ers

in W

est

Ger

man

y h

as

als

o b

egu

n t

o c

on

sid

er t

he

issu

e o

fra

ce.

An

aly

zin

g n

ati

on

al

pu

bli

c d

ebate

s ab

ou

t fo

reig

n lab

or

recr

uit

s, R

ita C

hin

arg

ues

th

at

the

‹gu

re

of

the

gu

est

wo

rker

eff

ecti

vel

y m

ark

ed i

mp

ort

ed w

ork

ers

as

tem

po

rary

so

-

jou

rner

s w

ho

wer

e co

mp

lete

ly s

epara

te f

rom

Ger

man

so

ciet

y. H

er e

ssay

sho

ws

ho

w W

est

Ger

man

s ap

pli

ed r

aci

ali

zed

no

tio

ns

of

cult

ura

l d

iffe

ren

ce

to g

ues

t w

ork

ers

(an

d e

spec

iall

y T

urk

s) o

nce

th

e p

rese

nce

of

lab

or

mi-

gra

nts

was

of‹

ciall

y a

ckn

ow

led

ged

as

per

man

ent.

As

a w

ho

le, th

is s

cho

lar-

ship

on

th

e p

ost

war

per

iod

rep

rese

nts

an

im

po

rtan

t st

art

, b

ut

the

lin

e o

fin

-

ves

tigati

on

nee

ds

to b

e ex

ten

ded

.19

Tak

ing s

erio

usl

y t

he

issu

e o

fco

nti

nu

ity w

ou

ld a

lso

op

en u

p n

ew a

v-

enu

es o

fin

qu

iry a

cro

ss t

he

enti

re s

pan

of

mo

der

n G

erm

an

his

tory

. If

the

raci

al

ideo

logie

s o

fth

e N

ati

on

al

So

ciali

st r

egim

e are

no

lo

nger

per

ceiv

ed

10A

fter

th

e N

azi

Raci

al

Sta

te

as

an

ab

solu

te b

reak

wit

h w

hat

cam

e b

efo

re a

nd

aft

er, th

en it

bec

om

es p

os-

sib

le a

nd

even

nec

essa

ry t

o t

hin

k a

bo

ut

raci

al

or

eth

nic

“d

iffe

ren

ce”

as

an

on

go

ing,

con

stit

uti

ve

qu

esti

on

in

th

e n

ati

on

’s d

evel

op

men

t.2

0O

ne

of

the

pri

mary

task

s o

fco

nso

lid

ati

ng t

he

nati

on

-sta

te,

aft

er a

ll,

was

de‹

nin

g t

he

legal

an

d i

deo

logic

al

para

met

ers

of

mem

ber

ship

in

ord

er t

o d

iffe

ren

tiate

insi

der

s fr

om

ou

tsid

ers.

In

th

is r

esp

ect,

nin

etee

nth

-cen

tury

an

tise

mit

ism

,

an

ti-S

lavis

m, an

d a

nti

bla

ck r

aci

sm s

erved

a f

un

ctio

n s

imil

ar

to t

hat

of

late

-

twen

tiet

h-c

entu

ry x

eno

ph

ob

ia.

Each

fo

rm o

fp

reju

dic

e b

ecam

e a k

ind

of

wea

po

n in

th

e ef

fort

to

ass

ert

a u

niq

uel

y G

erm

an

id

enti

ty; ea

ch s

ingle

d o

ut

a s

pec

i‹c

gro

up

of

peo

ple

as

an

tith

etic

al

an

d a

nta

go

nis

tic

to t

he

Ger

man

soci

al

bo

dy i

n a

n a

ttem

pt

to c

reate

eth

nic

ho

mo

gen

eity

. G

erm

an

y’s

pro

-

tract

ed s

tru

ggle

to

ach

ieve

nati

on

al

un

i‹ca

tio

n—

wit

h t

he

deb

ate

s o

ver

a

gre

ate

r o

r le

sser

Ger

man

y—

mad

e th

e n

eed

to

cle

arl

y d

emarc

ate

“o

ther

s”

esp

ecia

lly u

rgen

t. A

nd

def

eat

in b

oth

wo

rld

wars

, alo

ng w

ith

mo

re r

ecen

t

reu

ni‹

cati

on

, p

rod

uce

d m

om

ents

of

cris

is t

hat

req

uir

ed (

re)c

on

stru

ctin

g

nati

on

al

iden

tity

an

d h

ence

cla

rify

ing b

elo

ngin

g.

Ou

r p

oin

t is

no

t to

cla

im

that

thes

e en

gagem

ents

wit

h “

dif

fere

nce

”w

ere

exact

ly t

he

sam

e o

r th

at

they

pro

du

ced

eq

uiv

ale

nt

his

tori

cal

effe

cts.

We

sim

ply

wan

t to

su

gges

t th

at

they

ou

gh

t to

be

exp

lore

d i

n r

elati

on

to

on

e an

oth

er r

ath

er t

han

tre

ate

d a

s

iso

late

d,

dis

cret

e ep

iso

des

.

A J

ewis

h-T

urk

ish

co

mp

ari

son

, fo

r ex

am

ple

, yie

lds

sever

al

po

ten

tiall

y

illu

min

ati

ng i

nsi

gh

ts.

In t

erm

s o

fth

e st

atu

s o

fre

ligio

n,

Ch

rist

ian

an

ti-J

u-

dais

m o

ffer

s a c

ou

nte

rpo

int

to t

he

Isla

miz

ati

on

of

Tu

rkis

h i

mm

igra

nts

af-

ter

1945.

In m

edie

val

an

d e

arl

y m

od

ern

Eu

rop

e, r

elig

ion

ser

ved

as

the

pri

-

mary

m

ark

er

of

abso

lute

d

iffe

ren

ce:

Jew

s w

ere

vie

wed

as

reli

gio

usl

y

mis

gu

ided

an

d e

ven

th

e so

urc

e o

fd

eici

de.

Th

e p

erce

pti

on

of

reli

gio

us

al-

teri

ty d

icta

ted

th

e w

ay J

ews

wer

e tr

eate

d i

n G

erm

an

Ch

rist

ian

lan

ds.

Even

wh

en t

hey

wer

e to

lera

ted

, th

e p

op

ula

tio

n u

nd

erst

oo

d t

hem

as

sep

ara

te

fro

m a

nd

in

feri

or

to t

he

rest

of

soci

ety.

Th

is s

tatu

s w

as

mo

st v

isib

le i

n

term

s o

fth

e re

stri

ctio

ns

pla

ced

on

Jew

s’fr

ee m

ovem

ent,

tra

des

, an

d c

loth

-

ing.

Th

eir

soci

al

an

d e

con

om

ic s

tan

din

g a

s w

ell

as

thei

r p

hysi

cal

secu

rity

wer

e h

igh

ly p

reca

rio

us

an

d u

ltim

ate

ly d

epen

den

t o

n t

he

go

od

wil

l o

fth

e

rule

rs in

wh

ose

ter

rito

ry t

hey

res

ided

. W

ith

th

e re

cogn

itio

n o

fT

urk

ish

per

-

man

ent

resi

den

ce i

n p

ost

war

Ger

man

y, r

elig

ion

has

resu

rface

d a

s a c

ruci

al

exp

lan

ati

on

fo

r in

com

pati

bil

ity.

In

th

is c

ase

, th

e p

rob

lem

is

no

t so

mu

ch a

clash

of

do

ctri

nal

inte

rpre

tati

on

s o

r th

eolo

gic

al

un

der

stan

din

gs

that

set

on

e co

mm

un

ity o

fffr

om

an

oth

er,

bu

t ra

ther

a s

ense

th

at

Isla

mic

rel

igio

us

pra

ctic

es c

an

no

t b

e acc

om

mo

date

d w

ith

in a

Wes

tern

lib

eral

dem

ocr

acy

.

Fo

r m

an

y G

erm

an

s, t

he

Tu

rkis

h c

ust

om

of

fem

ale

hea

d-c

over

ing i

s th

e u

l-

Intr

oduc

tion

11

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tim

ate

sign

of

Isla

m’s

dee

ply

pat

riar

chal

nat

ure

an

d t

end

ency

to

op

pre

ssw

om

en. T

hes

e as

pec

ts o

fth

e re

ligio

n a

re d

eem

ed a

nti

thet

ical

to

th

e lib

eral

pri

nci

ple

of

equ

alit

y. I

slam

, in

th

is v

iew

, rep

rese

nts

a m

ajo

r ch

alle

nge

an

dth

reat

to

po

stw

ar G

erm

any’

s h

ard

-wo

n d

emo

crac

y.A

no

ther

po

int

of

com

par

iso

n is

th

e q

ues

tio

n o

fin

tegr

atio

n o

r as

sim

-ila

tio

n. F

or

Jew

s in

Ger

man

lan

ds,

th

e is

sue

emer

ged

as

a m

atte

r o

fse

rio

us

pu

blic

deb

ate

on

ce e

man

cip

atio

n b

ecam

e a

real

po

ssib

ility

. T

o t

he

exte

nt

that

th

e E

nlig

hte

nm

ent

pri

nci

ple

of

ind

ivid

ual

eq

ual

ity

pav

ed t

he

way

fo

rJe

wis

h e

qu

alit

y o

fri

ghts

ove

r th

e co

urs

e o

fth

e n

inet

een

th c

entu

ry, i

t al

sole

d t

o t

he

exp

ecta

tio

n t

hat

Jew

s w

ou

ld “

mer

ge w

ith

th

e re

st o

fth

e ci

tize

ns”

and

forg

o “

a n

atio

n o

fth

eir

own

, co

mp

lete

ly is

ola

ted

by

relig

iou

s cu

sto

ms,

way

s o

fth

ink

ing

and

act

ing.

”21

On

e u

nan

tici

pat

ed c

on

seq

uen

ce o

fJe

wis

hem

anci

pat

ion

, th

en, w

as a

n e

xpec

tati

on

of

assi

mila

tio

n th

at w

as u

ltim

atel

yh

ard

to

dis

tin

guis

h f

rom

th

e er

adic

atio

n o

fJu

dai

sm p

ure

an

d s

imp

le. S

im-

ilarl

y, a

mai

n t

ensi

on

aro

un

d T

urk

ish

im

mig

ran

ts i

n c

on

tem

po

rary

Ger

-m

any

has

bee

n t

he

pu

tati

ve f

ailu

re o

fin

tegr

atio

n.

Fo

r m

any

Ger

man

s o

nb

oth

th

e ri

ght

and

th

e le

ft, t

he

inte

grat

ion

of

Tu

rks

req

uir

es r

elin

qu

ish

ing

cult

ura

l par

ticu

lari

ties

an

d p

ath

olo

gies

that

they

ass

oci

ate

wit

h I

slam

, su

chas

th

e w

eari

ng

of

hea

dsc

arve

s o

r th

e p

erp

etu

atio

n o

fge

nd

er i

neq

ual

ity

(th

rou

gh a

rran

ged

mar

riag

es, d

om

esti

c vi

ole

nce

, an

d “

ho

no

r k

illin

gs”)

. Is-

lam

, th

ese

Ger

man

s fe

ar, e

nco

ura

ges

Tu

rks

to li

ve in

a P

aral

lelg

esel

lsch

aft

wit

h i

ts o

wn

ru

les,

val

ues

, an

d i

nst

itu

tio

ns

that

iso

late

th

em f

rom

mai

n-

stre

am s

oci

ety.

Th

e ex

iste

nce

of

encl

aves

in

maj

or

Ger

man

cit

ies

wh

ere

Tu

rkis

h i

s th

e p

rim

ary

lan

guag

e, w

ors

hip

tak

es p

lace

in

mo

squ

es,

busi

-n

esse

s ar

e p

red

om

inan

tly

Tu

rkis

h-o

wn

ed,

and

see

min

gly

bac

kw

ard

cu

s-to

ms

and

beh

avio

rs p

red

om

inat

e o

ften

ser

ves

as p

roo

fo

fth

e T

urk

ish

co

m-

mu

nit

y’s

un

will

ingn

ess

or

inab

ility

to

inte

grat

e.B

y ju

xtap

osi

ng

the

pu

sh f

or

assi

mila

tio

n o

r in

tegr

atio

n a

t tw

o v

ery

dif

fere

nt

his

tori

cal m

om

ents

, we

beg

in t

o s

ee C

hri

stia

nit

y as

a c

on

stit

uti

vebu

t so

met

imes

un

nam

ed e

lem

ent

of

Ger

man

cu

ltu

ral

iden

tity

.22

Jew

ish

eman

cip

atio

n o

ften

cam

e w

ith

th

e ex

pec

tati

on

of

conv

ersi

on

, wh

ile t

he

Is-

lam

of

Tu

rkis

h m

igra

nts

has

bee

n u

nd

erst

oo

d a

s cl

ash

ing

wit

h a

sec

ula

rst

ate

even

as

that

sta

te s

till

mai

nta

ins

spec

ial p

rivi

lege

s fo

r Ju

deo

-Ch

rist

ian

inst

itu

tio

ns.

At t

he

sam

e ti

me,

Ger

man

an

xiet

y ov

er th

e fa

ilure

to e

rad

icat

ed

iffe

ren

ce g

row

s o

ut

of

a d

isti

nct

set

of

con

cern

s in

eac

h c

ase.

An

ti-

sem

itis

m,

wh

ich

‹rs

t em

erge

d a

s a

term

in

Ger

man

pu

blic

deb

ate

du

rin

gth

e la

te n

inet

een

th c

entu

ry,

spec

i‹ca

lly c

on

dem

ned

Jew

s fo

r ca

usi

ng

and

ben

e‹ti

ng

fro

m t

he

mas

sive

up

hea

vals

of

glo

bal

cap

ital

ism

, in

du

stri

aliz

a-ti

on

, u

rban

izat

ion

, an

d m

od

ern

izat

ion

.23

On

th

is s

core

, th

e d

isco

urs

e

12A

fter

th

e N

azi R

acia

l Sta

te

aro

un

d

Tu

rks

pre

sen

ts

an

inte

rest

ing

con

tras

t:

Isla

m

has

o

ften

b

een

blam

ed f

or

enco

ura

gin

g b

ack

war

dn

ess

and

illi

ber

al b

ehav

ior

amo

ng

its

Tu

rkis

h-G

erm

an a

dh

eren

ts, a

sce

nar

io t

hat

is p

erce

ived

as

esp

ecia

lly d

an-

gero

us

bec

ause

it r

ein

tro

du

ces

retr

ogra

de

valu

es in

to G

erm

an s

oci

ety.

Th

is c

om

par

iso

n b

etw

een

Jew

s an

d T

urk

s, m

ore

over

, p

rod

uct

ivel

yfo

regr

ou

nd

s th

e co

mp

licat

ed c

alcu

lus

that

exi

sts

bet

wee

n c

ult

ura

l an

d b

io-

logi

cal

con

cep

tio

ns

of

dif

fere

nce

. A

fter

th

e m

urd

ero

us

gen

oci

de

of

Eu

ro-

pea

n J

ewry

co

mm

itte

d i

n t

he

nam

e o

fra

cial

pu

rity

, it

bec

ame

com

mo

n-

pla

ce a

mo

ng

Wes

tern

dem

ocr

acie

s to

rej

ect

the

lan

guag

e o

fra

ce. T

he

1950

Un

ited

Nat

ion

s st

atem

ent

on

rac

e, i

n f

act,

un

equ

ivo

cally

den

ou

nce

d t

he

valid

ity

of

the

con

cep

t as

a s

cien

ti‹

c ca

tego

ry a

nd

mad

e b

iolo

gica

l no

tio

ns

of

race

un

acce

pta

ble

in a

po

st-H

olo

cau

st w

orl

d. T

he

1949

co

nst

itu

tio

ns

of

bo

th p

ost

war

Ger

man

sta

tes

dec

lare

d c

ivic

eq

ual

ity

un

der

th

e la

w a

nd

pro

-h

ibit

ed r

acia

l dis

crim

inat

ion

.24

On

e ef

fect

of

this

tre

nd

was

th

e re

pu

dia

tio

no

fb

iolo

gy a

nd

the

grow

ing

pre

po

nd

eran

ce o

fcu

ltu

re a

s an

exp

lan

atio

n fo

rfu

nd

amen

tal

dif

fere

nce

s b

etw

een

peo

ple

s. S

uch

exp

lan

atio

ns

insi

sted

th

atit

was

un

nat

ura

l fo

r d

iffe

ren

t n

atio

nal

gro

up

s to

live

tog

eth

er n

ot

so m

uch

bec

ause

on

e w

as s

up

erio

r to

th

e o

ther

bu

t ra

ther

bec

ause

eac

h b

elo

nge

d t

oa

dif

fere

nt

cult

ure

. In

th

e ea

rly

1980

s, f

or

exam

ple

, C

hri

stia

n D

emo

crat

sco

nd

emn

ed t

he

far

Rig

ht’s

cla

im t

hat

Tu

rks

and

oth

er g

ues

t w

ork

ers

thre

aten

ed t

he

gen

etic

pu

rity

of

the

Fed

eral

Rep

ubl

ic a

s o

bvio

usl

y ra

cist

.B

ut

they

wen

t o

n t

o a

dvo

cate

res

tric

tio

ns

on

co

nti

nued

fam

ily r

eun

ion

, ar-

guin

g th

at t

he

stre

ngt

h o

fT

urk

ish

cu

ltu

re p

reve

nte

d s

ucc

essf

ul i

nte

grat

ion

and

thu

s im

per

iled

the

Ger

man

way

of

life.

Rej

ecti

ng

imm

igra

tio

n a

nd

eth

-n

ic d

iver

sity

, in

th

is v

iew

, was

no

t ra

cist

, bu

t an

ho

nes

t ac

kn

owle

dgm

ent

of

un

bri

dge

able

dif

fere

nce

.25

In t

he

last

tw

enty

yea

rs,

sch

ola

rs o

fE

uro

pe

hav

e cr

itic

ized

th

e p

ost

-w

ar s

hif

t fr

om

bio

logy

to

cu

ltu

re,

no

tin

g th

e w

ays

that

cu

ltu

ral

exp

lan

a-ti

on

s o

fin

com

men

sura

ble

dif

fere

nce

esc

aped

th

e ta

inte

d l

abel

of

raci

sm.

So

me

of

the

mo

st in

sigh

tfu

l wo

rk c

har

acte

rize

d t

his

sh

ift

as t

he

emer

gen

ceo

fa

“new

rac

ism

,”in

wh

ich

usi

ng

the

lan

guag

e o

fcu

ltu

re m

ade

raci

st a

s-su

mp

tio

ns

of

esse

nti

al d

iffe

ren

ce s

eem

rea

son

able

an

d r

esp

ecta

ble.

26

Bu

tth

ese

sch

ola

rly

effo

rts

to e

xpo

se t

he

raci

alis

t th

ink

ing

lurk

ing

ben

eath

cu

l-tu

ral a

rgu

men

ts a

gain

st im

mig

rati

on

an

d e

thn

ic d

iver

sity

(a

pro

ject

we

en-

thu

sias

tica

lly e

nd

ors

e) h

ave

also

pro

du

ced

un

inte

nd

ed c

on

seq

uen

ces.

Cu

l-tu

re o

ften

ap

pea

rs a

s an

en

tire

ly n

ovel

mo

de

for

rati

on

aliz

ing

the

clai

m o

fab

solu

te b

ou

nd

arie

s b

etw

een

peo

ple

s an

d n

atio

ns.

Wh

at a

bro

ader

tem

po

ral f

ram

e an

d c

om

par

ativ

e ap

pro

ach

mak

e vi

s-ib

le a

re t

he

way

s in

wh

ich

cu

ltu

re a

nd

bio

logy

are

ro

uti

nel

y in

terw

oven

. In

-

Intr

oduc

tion

13

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dee

d, b

oth

th

e Je

wis

h q

ues

tio

n a

nd

th

e gu

est

wo

rker

qu

esti

on

dem

on

stra

teth

at c

ult

ura

lly b

ased

no

tio

ns

of

dif

fere

nce

hav

e al

way

s ex

iste

d a

lon

gsid

eth

eir

bio

logi

cal

cou

nte

rpar

ts.

Wit

hin

th

e fr

amew

ork

of

Ch

rist

ian

an

ti-J

u-

dai

sm a

nd

an

tise

mit

ism

, Je

ws’

relig

iou

s b

elie

fs a

nd

cu

sto

ms

pro

ved

th

eir

fun

dam

enta

l d

isti

nct

ion

fro

m G

erm

ans,

eve

n a

s th

ose

cu

ltu

ral

trai

ts w

ere

oft

en u

nd

erst

oo

d a

s in

her

ited

. T

he

Naz

is c

onv

erse

ly e

mp

loye

d b

loo

dlin

esto

mar

k J

ews

as O

ther

, w

hile

sim

ult

aneo

usl

y p

oin

tin

g to

Jew

ish

cu

ltu

ral

pec

ulia

riti

es t

o j

ust

ify

this

exc

lusi

on

.27

In a

sim

ilar

vein

, W

est

Ger

man

co

nse

rvat

ives

exp

ress

ed a

nxi

etie

s ab

ou

t T

urk

ish

cu

ltu

ral

dif

fere

nce

by

emp

has

izin

g Is

lam

ic fa

ith

an

d c

on

dem

nin

g w

hat

they

per

ceiv

ed a

s Is

lam

ic-

insp

ired

fo

rms

of

beh

avio

r. B

ut

they

als

o r

etai

ned

a h

ard

er n

oti

on

of

im-

mu

tab

ility

, in

sist

ing

that

Tu

rkis

h c

ult

ure

was

to

o s

tro

ng

to a

llow

fo

r su

c-ce

ssfu

l in

tegr

atio

n n

o m

atte

r h

ow lo

ng

Tu

rks

and

Ger

man

s liv

ed t

oget

her

.In

eac

h c

ase,

nei

ther

th

e b

iolo

gica

l n

or

the

cult

ura

l is

fu

lly a

bse

nt

fro

mra

cial

ized

co

nce

pti

on

s o

fd

iffe

ren

ce.

Th

is b

road

er a

pp

roac

h a

lso

hel

ps

us

to s

ee th

at r

ace,

eth

nic

ity,

an

d n

a-ti

on

are

no

t so

mu

ch d

iscr

ete

enti

ties

or

thin

gs i

n t

hem

selv

es b

ut

rath

erm

od

es o

fp

erce

pti

on

or

way

s o

fm

akin

g se

nse

of

the

wo

rld

.28

In t

his

fo

r-m

ula

tio

n,

the

salie

nt

qu

esti

on

is

no

t w

het

her

an

tise

mit

ism

an

d a

nti

-Tu

rk-

ish

xen

op

ho

bia

rea

lly c

ou

nt

as r

acis

m?

Or

wh

at d

iffe

ren

tiat

es r

egu

lar

old

pre

jud

ice

fro

m d

ange

rou

s ra

cism

? B

ut

rath

er h

ow d

oes

rac

e th

ink

ing

get

op

erat

ion

aliz

ed?

Wh

en a

nd

why

do

peo

ple

in

terp

ret

soci

al e

xper

ien

ce i

nra

cial

or

eth

nic

ter

ms?

Wh

at a

bo

ut

a p

arti

cula

r h

isto

rica

l m

om

ent

lead

sp

eop

le t

o in

voke

rac

e o

r et

hn

icit

y as

an

exp

lan

atio

n fo

r so

cial

rel

atio

ns,

so

-ci

al r

esen

tmen

ts, o

r ev

en s

oci

al v

iole

nce

? O

ur

inte

nti

on

her

e is

no

t to

off

erd

e‹n

itiv

e an

alys

es o

fan

tise

mit

ism

or

anti

-Tu

rkis

h x

eno

ph

ob

ia,

or

to e

x-p

licat

e th

e re

lati

on

ship

bet

wee

n t

hem

on

ce a

nd

fo

r al

l, bu

t to

dra

w a

tten

-ti

on

to

th

e k

ind

s o

fq

ues

tio

ns

op

ened

up

by

mak

ing

race

as

a w

ay o

fun

-de

rsta

ndin

g th

e so

cial

w

orld

an

on

goin

g an

d

cen

tral

n

arra

tive

w

ith

inm

od

ern

Ger

man

his

tory

.29

At

this

po

int,

it a

lso

see

ms

nec

essa

ry t

o a

sk w

hat

is t

o b

e ga

ined

an

dw

hat

is t

o b

e lo

st w

ith

an

ap

pro

ach

th

at in

sist

s o

n s

eein

g “r

ace”

as a

sal

ien

tca

tego

ry,

and

rac

ializ

atio

n a

s a

con

tinu

ing

pra

ctic

e, w

ith

in G

erm

an h

is-

tory

. Th

ere

is u

nea

se, e

spec

ially

am

on

g E

uro

pea

ns,

wit

h w

hat

see

ms

to b

eth

e im

po

siti

on

of

an A

mer

ican

mo

del

—ra

ce—

on

a r

adic

ally

dif

fere

nt

Eu

-ro

pea

n h

isto

ry, s

oci

ety,

an

d s

et o

fva

lues

. To

be

sure

, th

e co

nce

pt

of

Ras

seh

as b

een

clo

sely

ass

oci

ated

wit

h t

he

dis

cip

lines

of

anth

rop

olo

gy a

nd

eu

-ge

nic

s, t

rad

itio

nal

ly in

volv

ed a

‹xa

tio

n o

n J

ews

and

Sla

vs, a

nd

was

gen

er-

ally

trea

ted

as

an o

nto

logi

cal c

ateg

ory

. Th

us,

for

man

y G

erm

ans

bo

rn a

fter

14A

fter

th

e N

azi R

acia

l Sta

te

Wo

rld

War

II,

th

e id

ea o

fu

sin

g th

e w

ord

is

tan

tam

ou

nt

to v

alid

atin

g th

eas

sum

pti

on

s, b

elie

fs,

and

fal

se s

cien

ce o

n w

hic

h i

t h

ad b

een

bas

ed.

Yet

wh

at is

co

nsi

sten

t b

etw

een

“ra

ce”

and

“R

asse

”is

th

e in

sist

ence

on

loo

kin

gfo

r d

iffe

ren

ces

bet

wee

n p

eop

le.

In t

his

res

pec

t, w

e ar

e tr

yin

g to

op

en u

p a

wh

ole

‹el

d o

f“r

ace”

and

rac

e th

ink

ing,

a b

road

er f

ram

ewo

rk t

hat

wo

uld

allo

w t

hes

e tw

o c

on

cep

ts t

o b

e se

en a

s co

mp

arab

le b

ut

also

nev

er f

ully

sta

-bl

e. M

axim

Silv

erm

an h

as o

bse

rved

for

a F

ren

ch s

oci

ety

that

has

sim

ilarl

yre

ject

ed t

he

wo

rd r

ace

that

“th

e b

anis

hm

ent

of

the

term

is n

o g

uar

ante

e o

fth

e b

anis

hm

ent

of

the

pra

ctic

e.”3

0

Ou

r in

ten

tio

n i

s ce

rtai

nly

no

t to

len

d c

red

ence

to

th

e so

cial

cat

ego

ryo

f“r

ace”

as a

bio

logi

cal o

r o

nto

logi

cal r

ealit

y o

r to

su

gges

t th

at w

e ac

cep

tsu

ch a

vie

w b

ut

rath

er t

o u

se t

he

term

as

a cr

itic

al c

on

cep

t th

at e

nab

les

us

to p

erce

ive

pro

cess

es o

fra

cial

izat

ion

, th

e w

ays

Ger

man

so

ciet

y h

as b

een

and

rem

ain

s st

ruct

ure

d a

cco

rdin

g to

id

eas

abo

ut

fun

dam

enta

l (a

nd

oft

enh

iera

rch

ical

) d

iffe

ren

ces

amo

ng

gro

up

s o

fp

eop

les.

It

is i

mp

ort

ant

to b

ecl

ear

abo

ut

the

pre

cise

mo

men

ts w

hen

rac

ializ

ed t

hin

kin

g b

ecam

e o

per

a-ti

on

al: w

hen

, how

, an

d w

hy s

pec

i‹c

sect

ors

of

the

po

pu

lati

on

are

iden

ti‹

edan

d t

arge

ted

as

con

stit

uti

ng

“gro

up

s”im

bued

wit

h s

ign

i‹ca

nt

and

mea

n-

ingf

ul

dif

fere

nce

s fr

om

th

e m

ajo

rity

po

pu

lati

on

. W

hen

, h

ow,

why

, an

d b

yw

ho

m i

s “g

rou

pn

ess”

mo

bili

zed

, to

bo

rrow

Rog

ers

Bru

bak

er’s

ter

min

ol-

ogy,

an

d t

o w

hat

po

litic

al, s

oci

al, a

nd

cu

ltu

ral e

ffec

t?3

1

Feh

ren

bac

h

dem

on

stra

tes

qu

ite

clea

rly

that

in

th

e ‹

rst

po

stw

ard

ecad

es t

he

Am

eric

an m

od

el o

fra

ce d

id, i

n f

act,

hav

e a

maj

or

in›

uen

ce o

nW

est

Ger

man

par

amet

ers

for

thin

kin

g ab

ou

t an

d fo

rmu

lati

ng

soci

al p

olic

yo

n A

fro

-Ger

man

occ

up

atio

n c

hild

ren

. A

t th

e sa

me

tim

e, C

hin

su

gges

tsth

at r

acia

lized

no

tio

ns

of

dif

fere

nce

on

ly b

ecam

e n

eces

sary

fo

r u

nd

er-

stan

din

g gu

est

wo

rker

s o

nce

th

e F

eder

al R

epu

blic

beg

an t

o a

ckn

owle

dge

thes

e m

igra

nts

as

per

man

ent

mem

ber

s o

fso

ciet

y. S

uch

exa

mp

les

vivi

dly

il-

lust

rate

th

e n

eces

sity

of

op

enin

g o

ur

eyes

to

th

e h

isto

rica

lly c

on

tin

gen

tp

roce

sses

of

raci

aliz

atio

n a

nd

eth

nic

izat

ion

. In

dee

d,

we

can

no

t gr

asp

th

efu

ll ra

nge

of

soci

al e

xper

ien

ce in

po

stw

ar W

est

Ger

man

y w

ith

ou

t th

is c

rit-

ical

per

spec

tive

.

Raci

al

Ideo

logie

s in

Tra

nsn

ati

onal

Per

spec

tive

Rac

ial

ideo

logi

es,

alth

ou

gh t

ypic

ally

inv

esti

gate

d a

nd

co

nce

ptu

aliz

ed i

nn

atio

nal

ter

ms,

are

fu

nd

amen

tally

inte

rnat

ion

al a

nd

tra

nsn

atio

nal

in r

efer

-en

ce. T

his

ext

end

s fr

om

sp

eci‹

cally

nat

ion

al r

egim

es o

fb

elo

ngi

ng

such

as

Intr

oduc

tion

15

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citi

zen

ship

an

d im

mig

rati

on

po

licy,

wh

ich

are

gro

un

ded

in c

on

cep

tio

ns

of

“us”

and

“o

ther

”an

d a

rtic

ula

te t

he

lega

l b

asis

fo

r in

clu

sio

n i

n a

nd

exc

lu-

sio

n f

rom

th

e n

atio

n,

thro

ugh

so

cial

po

licy,

to

po

pu

lar

no

tio

ns

and

cu

l-tu

ral

exp

ress

ion

s o

fd

iffe

ren

ce.

In t

his

, G

erm

any

was

lik

e o

ther

mo

der

nE

uro

pea

n n

atio

ns

of

the

eigh

teen

th a

nd

nin

etee

nth

cen

turi

es,

fou

nd

edu

po

n t

he

lan

guag

e o

fet

hn

ic s

elf-

det

erm

inat

ion

an

d r

igh

ts.

Wh

at d

iffe

red

in t

he

Ger

man

cas

e w

ere

the

his

tori

cal,

geog

rap

hic

al,

and

th

eref

ore

th

eid

eolo

gica

l par

ticu

lars

. Ger

man

un

i‹ca

tio

n a

nd

nat

ion

bu

ildin

g in

th

e la

ten

inet

een

th c

entu

ry r

esu

lted

fro

m a

hal

fd

ecad

e o

fw

ars

(aga

inst

th

e D

anes

,th

e H

apsb

urg

Au

stri

ans,

an

d th

e F

ren

ch),

wh

ich

wer

e o

rch

estr

ated

to fo

rge

a p

olit

y, c

itiz

enry

, an

d, u

ltim

atel

y, a

loya

lty

to t

he

new

Ger

man

nat

ion

an

dit

s P

rote

stan

t P

russ

ian

Kai

ser

amo

ng

a d

iver

se c

olle

ctio

n o

fce

ntr

al E

uro

-p

ean

s d

ivid

ed n

ot o

nly

by

regi

on

an

d r

elig

ion

bu

t als

o b

y la

ngu

age

and

eth

-n

ic id

enti

‹ca

tio

n. T

he

Ger

man

nat

ion

th

at r

esu

lted

was

har

dly

a h

om

oge-

neo

us

idea

l, bu

t a m

ore

het

erog

eneo

us

mix

that

incl

ud

ed m

ino

rity

rel

igio

ns

(Cat

ho

licis

m a

nd

Ju

dai

sm)

and

asc

rib

ed e

thn

icit

ies

(Po

les,

Cze

chs,

Dan

es,

Fre

nch

, S

orb

s, S

inti

, an

d R

om

a).

Th

e q

ues

t to

fo

ster

nat

ion

al l

oyal

ty a

nd

Ger

man

id

enti

ty i

nvo

lved

exp

licit

att

emp

ts b

y th

e st

ate

and

its

aca

dem

ices

tabl

ish

men

t to

del

inea

te t

he

soci

al a

nd

cu

ltu

ral d

iffe

ren

ces

bet

wee

n G

er-

man

s an

d t

hei

r O

ther

s, b

oth

do

mes

tic

and

fo

reig

n.

Th

is e

nco

mp

asse

dst

rate

gies

as

div

erse

as

Bis

mar

ck’s

Ku

ltu

rkam

pf

(187

3–79

), w

hic

h t

arge

ted

Po

les

and

Cat

ho

lics;

imp

eria

l exp

ansi

on

in o

vers

eas

colo

nie

s p

rio

r to

191

8an

d i

n E

uro

pe

pro

per

th

rou

gh 1

945;

a n

atio

nal

ity

law

(19

13)

bas

ed u

po

np

atri

arch

al d

esce

nt

and

an

eth

nic

ized

no

tio

n o

fD

euts

chtu

m;a

nd

th

e cu

lti-

vati

on

of

soci

al k

now

led

ges

of

race

—su

ch a

s co

lon

ial a

nth

rop

olo

gy, O

st-

fors

chun

g, e

uge

nic

s, a

nd

oth

er r

acia

l sci

ence

s—th

at le

giti

mat

ed s

tate

init

ia-

tive

s ra

ngin

g fr

om c

onqu

est,

col

oniz

atio

n, n

atio

naliz

atio

n, a

nd d

epor

tati

onto

ado

ptio

n, a

bort

ion,

Ary

aniz

atio

n, s

teri

lizat

ion,

eut

hana

sia,

ens

lave

men

t,m

ass

expu

lsio

ns,

and

even

tual

ly

geno

cide

. G

erm

an

nati

onal

id

enti

tyem

erge

d an

d ev

olve

d ac

cord

ing

to a

pro

trac

ted

polit

ics

ofdi

ffer

ence

that

es-

tabl

ishe

d G

erm

an s

ubje

ctiv

ity

and

supe

rior

ity

by d

elin

eati

ng t

hese

fro

mth

eir

hist

oric

ally

, geo

grap

hica

lly, a

nd p

olit

ical

ly r

elev

ant O

ther

s. B

y th

e ea

rly

twen

tiet

h ce

ntur

y, G

erm

anne

ss w

as d

e‹ne

d in

opp

osit

ion

to a

num

ber

ofra

cial

ly d

e‹ne

d ca

tego

ries

of

perc

eive

d al

iens

res

idin

g in

Ger

man

y, i

tsco

loni

es,

and

its

bord

erla

nds,

nam

ely,

Jew

s, S

lavs

, B

lack

s, a

nd “

Gyp

sies

.”32

Bec

ause

thi

s pr

oces

s w

as “

enm

eshe

d”w

ith

the

ques

t fo

r “n

atio

nal

iden

tity

and

cohe

sion

,”w

e ca

ll it

a n

atio

naliz

ing

polit

ics

ofdi

ffer

ence

.33

Th

is n

atio

nal

izin

g p

olit

ics

of

dif

fere

nce

was

res

po

nsi

ve t

o m

ore

th

anm

erel

y th

e ac

cid

ents

of

geog

rap

hy a

nd

lo

caliz

ed i

nte

rnat

ion

al p

ress

ure

s,

16A

fter

th

e N

azi R

acia

l Sta

te

wh

eth

er a

ctu

al o

r p

erce

ived

. It

also

dev

elo

ped

in o

ngo

ing

dia

logu

e w

ith

ala

rger

in

tern

atio

nal

mar

ketp

lace

of

idea

s an

d i

nte

ract

ion

s. I

n t

his

sen

se,

Ger

man

rac

ial i

deo

logi

es—

tho

ugh

art

icu

late

d t

hro

ugh

nat

ion

al la

ws,

po

li-ci

es,

and

pra

ctic

es—

hav

e b

een

sh

aped

by

a tr

ansn

atio

nal

dyn

amic

.34

Be-

gin

nin

g in

th

e n

inet

een

th c

entu

ry,

this

inv

olv

ed,

amo

ng

oth

er t

hin

gs,

the

pro

fess

ion

al in

tera

ctio

ns

of

bio

logi

sts,

an

thro

po

logi

sts,

an

d e

thn

ogra

ph

ers

wit

hin

a g

row

ing

inte

rnat

ion

al a

cad

emic

cir

cuit

of

con

fere

nce

s, r

esea

rch

inst

itu

tes,

an

d jo

urn

als

that

res

ult

ed in

the

circ

ula

tio

n o

fso

cial

kn

owle

dge

so

fra

ce,

now

un

hin

ged

fro

m t

he

nat

ion

al c

on

text

wit

hin

wh

ich

th

ey h

adb

een

art

icu

late

d,

for

sele

ctiv

e b

orr

owin

g o

r tr

ansp

lan

tati

on

els

ewh

ere.

35

Rac

ial i

deo

logi

es w

ere

also

sh

aped

by

a ra

nge

of

inte

ract

ion

s b

etw

een

no

r-m

ativ

e G

erm

ans

and

per

ceiv

ed r

acia

l al

ien

s in

th

e w

ork

pla

ce,

nei

ghb

or-

ho

od

, str

eet,

sh

op,

sch

oo

l, m

ilita

ry, a

nd

eve

n t

he

ho

me

(in

th

e ca

se o

fd

o-

mes

tic

serv

ants

) in

Ger

man

y p

rop

er,

in G

erm

any’

s co

lon

ial

terr

ito

ries

in

Afr

ica,

Asi

a, a

nd

Eu

rop

e, a

nd

du

rin

g G

erm

ans’

trav

els

abro

ad.

A t

hir

d c

ruci

al t

ran

snat

ion

al n

etw

ork

fo

r th

e cu

ltiv

atio

n o

fso

cial

kn

owle

dge

an

d c

ult

ura

l re

pre

sen

tati

on

s o

fra

ce w

as t

he

exp

and

ing

glo

bal

mar

ket.

Th

is u

nle

ash

ed a

his

tori

cally

un

pre

ced

ente

d i

ncr

ease

in

tra

nsn

a-ti

on

al m

igra

nt

lab

or

and

th

e m

ass

circ

ula

tio

n o

fco

mm

erci

al m

edia

an

dp

rod

uct

s—su

ch a

s m

ovie

s, m

usi

c, m

agaz

ines

, fas

hio

n, a

nd

co

smet

ics—

that

dis

sem

inat

ed p

ote

nt

imag

es a

nd

nar

rati

ves

of

race

.36

Rac

ial a

esth

etic

s an

did

eolo

gy a

re a

n in

tegr

al e

xpre

ssio

n o

fm

od

ern

ity,

imp

licat

ed in

its

po

litic

al,

soci

al,

cult

ura

l, an

d e

con

om

ic f

orm

s. M

ob

ilize

d t

hro

ugh

pro

cess

es o

fn

a-ti

on

aliz

atio

n, r

acia

l aes

thet

ics

and

ideo

logi

es h

ave

bee

n p

erp

etu

ated

by

anin

crea

sin

gly

mo

bile

an

d g

lob

al c

apit

alis

t ec

on

om

y.3

7T

he

Ger

man

po

litic

so

fra

ce m

ust

be

situ

ated

in t

his

larg

er in

tern

atio

nal

nex

us.

Th

e ar

gum

ent f

or

inve

stig

atin

g th

e p

olit

ics

of

race

as

an o

ngo

ing,

co

n-

stit

uti

ve f

eatu

re o

fm

od

ern

Ger

man

y—an

d m

od

ern

nat

ion

s m

ore

gen

er-

ally

—d

oes

no

t d

isco

un

t th

e dy

nam

ics

of

chan

ge.

Th

e ye

ars

afte

r 19

45 i

nG

erm

any

are

a ca

se i

n p

oin

t. W

ith

mili

tary

def

eat

in M

ay 1

945,

th

ew

arti

me

geog

rap

hy o

fra

ce im

po

sed

up

on

Eu

rop

e by

th

e N

azi r

egim

e w

asth

rust

bac

k in

to G

erm

any,

in p

arti

cula

r in

to th

e w

este

rn z

on

es o

ccu

pie

d b

yth

e B

riti

sh a

nd

th

e A

mer

ican

s. D

efea

ted

Ger

man

s w

itn

esse

d t

he

in›

ux

of

thei

r fo

rmer

rac

ializ

ed e

nem

ies

in t

he

form

of

Jew

ish

, S

lavi

c, a

nd

Sov

iet

DP

s, w

ho

wer

e lib

erat

ed f

rom

sla

ve l

abo

r an

d t

he

dea

th c

amp

s o

r, a

bit

late

r, h

ad ›

ed w

estw

ard

in t

he

face

of

pog

rom

s in

ear

ly p

ost

war

Po

lan

d.3

8

Sim

ult

aneo

usl

y, G

erm

ans

wer

e su

bo

rdin

ated

to

th

e m

ult

ieth

nic

mili

tari

eso

fth

e B

riti

sh,

Fre

nch

, S

ovie

t, a

nd

U.S

. vi

cto

rs.

In t

erm

s o

fp

olit

ical

au

-th

ori

ty a

nd

so

cial

dem

ogra

ph

ics,

May

194

5 re

pre

sen

ted

an

ab

rup

t ru

ptu

re

Intr

oduc

tion

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for

Ger

man

s. T

he

resi

den

t p

op

ula

tio

n w

ith

in t

hei

r o

ccu

pie

d b

ord

ers

in-

crea

sed

an

d b

ecam

e et

hn

ical

ly d

iver

se. D

ue

to m

ilita

ry o

ccu

pat

ion

, mo

re-

over

, G

erm

ans

had

lo

st t

hei

r fo

rmal

ized

po

litic

al a

nd

so

cial

su

per

iori

ty.

Th

ey n

o l

on

ger

exer

cise

d a

uth

ori

ty a

t h

om

e o

r ab

road

. T

hei

r h

iera

rch

ical

soci

al a

nd

rac

ial

ord

er h

ad b

eco

me

dis

ord

ered

. B

ut

exac

tly

how

in

tera

c-ti

on

s w

ith

fore

ign

Alli

ed s

up

erio

rs, p

rote

cted

DP

su

rviv

ors

, an

d r

efu

gees

—an

d c

on

tact

wit

h v

icto

rs’

own

rac

ial

atti

tud

es a

nd

id

eolo

gies

—af

fect

edp

ost

war

Ger

man

s’n

oti

on

s o

fra

cial

an

d n

atio

nal

iden

tity

an

d t

hei

r ex

pec

-ta

tio

ns

con

cern

ing

the

con

ten

t an

d s

oci

al c

on

seq

uen

ces

of

dem

ocr

atiz

a-ti

on

is s

till

insu

f‹ci

entl

y u

nd

erst

oo

d.

No

net

hel

ess,

it

is c

lear

th

at t

he

alte

red

in

tern

atio

nal

co

nte

xt a

nd

tran

snat

ion

al in

tera

ctio

ns

wit

hin

occ

up

ied

Ger

man

y p

rod

uce

d a

dra

mat

icim

pac

t. M

ilita

ry o

ccu

pat

ion

, co

mb

ined

wit

h p

ost

war

Ger

man

s’o

bse

rva-

tio

n o

fan

tibl

ack

rac

ism

in t

he

U.S

. arm

y an

d o

ften

vio

len

t re

acti

on

to

th

eci

vil

righ

ts m

ovem

ent,

a g

row

ing

mar

ket

for

Afr

ican

Am

eric

an r

ock

’n’

roll,

jazz

, an

d r

hyth

m a

nd

blu

es, a

nd

th

e p

olit

ical

des

tab

iliza

tio

n c

ause

d b

yd

eco

lon

izat

ion

cre

ated

a n

ew le

ns

thro

ugh

wh

ich

Ger

man

s b

egan

to

inte

r-p

ret

“rac

e.”3

9A

s G

erm

any

abru

ptl

y re

ced

ed a

s a

glo

bal

po

litic

al a

nd

mili

-ta

ry p

ower

, th

e si

gni‹

can

t si

tes

of

race

ap

pea

red

to

mov

e el

sew

her

e. I

n t

he

dec

ades

aft

er W

orl

d W

ar I

I, G

erm

ans

on

bo

th s

ides

of

the

Co

ld W

ar b

or-

der

incr

easi

ngl

y in

tern

atio

nal

ized

—an

d W

este

rniz

ed—

the

race

pro

blem

.B

y th

e tu

rn o

fth

e 19

50s,

Ger

man

co

mm

enta

tors

iden

ti‹

ed r

acis

t p

ol-

icy

and

beh

avio

r—an

d t

her

efo

re p

reo

ccu

pat

ion

s w

ith

“ra

ce”

as a

so

cial

cate

gory

—p

rim

arily

wit

h t

he

Un

ited

Sta

tes

and

, se

con

dar

ily,

wit

h t

hei

rW

este

rn E

uro

pea

n n

eigh

bo

rs e

nga

ged

in

th

e p

ain

ful

pro

cess

of

dec

olo

-n

izat

ion

. T

his

was

lik

ely

a fu

nct

ion

of

seve

ral

dev

elo

pm

ents

, al

l o

fw

hic

hw

ere

con

nec

ted

to

th

e d

rast

ical

ly c

han

ged

geo

po

litic

al s

itu

atio

n a

fter

Wo

rld

War

II

and

th

e em

ergi

ng

bip

ola

r w

orl

d.

Fir

st w

as t

he

ado

pti

on

, in

Ger

man

y, o

fan

Am

eric

an m

od

el o

fra

ce,

bas

ed u

po

n s

kin

co

lor

and

abl

ack

-wh

ite

bin

ary,

an

d a

co

rres

po

nd

ing

dis

arti

cula

tio

n o

fan

tise

mit

ism

fro

m r

acis

m. S

eco

nd

, th

e F

eder

al R

epu

blic

exp

erie

nce

d a

dem

ogra

ph

ic d

e-cl

ine,

as

a re

sult

of

the

Ho

loca

ust

an

d a

vid

em

igra

tio

n, o

fJe

ws

and

oth

erm

ino

riti

es w

ho

wer

e G

erm

an c

itiz

ens

rath

er th

an G

erm

an r

esid

ents

. Th

ird

,th

e em

erge

nce

of

the

Co

ld W

ar a

nd

pro

lifer

atio

n o

fso

cial

ist

stat

es u

nd

erS

ovie

t p

atro

nag

e p

rod

uce

d a

new

typ

e o

fp

olit

ick

ing

that

eag

erly

adv

er-

tise

d t

he

dis

crep

anci

es b

etw

een

th

e lo

fty

pro

mis

es a

nd

th

e p

reju

dic

ed p

rac-

tice

s o

fA

mer

ican

cap

ital

ist

dem

ocr

acy

at h

om

e an

d a

bro

ad.

At

the

sam

eti

me,

Eu

rop

ean

so

cial

ist

stat

es a

ctiv

ely

sup

po

rted

th

e lib

erat

ion

mov

e-

18A

fter

th

e N

azi R

acia

l Sta

te

men

ts o

fco

lon

ials

aga

inst

th

eir

Wes

tern

Eu

rop

ean

mas

ters

an

d c

on

cur-

ren

tly

shie

lded

th

eir

own

do

mes

tic

soci

al i

lls f

rom

scr

uti

ny.4

0T

he

rise

of

Am

eric

an in

tern

atio

nal

in›

uen

ce, c

om

bin

ed w

ith

th

e so

cial

ear

thq

uak

e o

fth

e U

.S.

civi

l ri

ghts

mov

emen

t an

d a

dec

line

in W

este

rn E

uro

pea

n c

ou

n-

trie

s’ab

ility

to

mai

nta

in t

hei

r im

per

ial

pow

er a

bro

ad,

refo

cuse

d t

he

inte

r-n

atio

nal

bat

tleg

rou

nd

of

“rac

e”aw

ay f

rom

Ger

man

y. T

his

dev

elo

pm

ent

was

lik

ely

furt

her

pro

pel

led

by

the

New

Lef

t ra

dic

alis

m o

fth

e st

ud

ent

mov

emen

t, w

hic

h w

as g

rou

nd

ed i

n a

cri

tiq

ue

of

the

op

pre

ssiv

e so

cial

ef-

fect

s o

fgl

ob

al c

apit

alis

m in

gen

eral

an

d A

mer

ican

pow

er in

par

ticu

lar.

41

To

su

m u

p, i

t m

igh

t b

e u

sefu

l to

mak

e a

cou

ple

of

ob

serv

atio

ns.

De‹

nit

ion

s o

fra

ce/R

asse

are

no

t h

isto

rica

lly s

tabl

e an

d w

ere

in a

per

iod

of

trem

end

ou

s ›

ux

in t

he

po

st-1

945

per

iod

in

bot

h E

uro

pe

and

th

e U

nit

edS

tate

s. T

he

ideo

logi

es o

f“r

ace”

and

“R

asse

,” t

ho

ugh

ass

oci

ated

wit

h d

is-

tin

ctiv

e n

atio

nal

-cu

ltu

ral

trad

itio

ns,

did

no

t ev

olv

e in

sp

len

did

iso

lati

on

but

thro

ugh

in

ten

se m

utu

al i

nte

ract

ion

, p

arti

cula

rly

afte

r W

orl

d W

ar I

I.B

y th

e 19

60s,

Ger

man

s an

d t

hei

r h

isto

rian

s ca

me

to r

ecog

niz

e “r

ace”

on

lyin

mo

men

ts o

fov

ert

raci

al v

iole

nce

an

d i

ncr

easi

ngl

y ar

ou

nd

pro

blem

s o

fco

lor—

such

as

the

eras

of

Naz

i d

om

inat

ion

, d

eco

lon

izat

ion

, o

r th

e U

.S.

civi

l rig

hts

mov

emen

t. A

s a

resu

lt, t

he

stu

dy o

fq

ues

tio

ns

of

race

has

bee

nco

rdo

ned

off

to p

erio

ds

of

hig

h s

oci

al d

ram

a o

r d

estr

uct

ion

. Th

is h

as le

dto

a n

egle

ct o

fth

e m

ore

su

btl

e ye

t n

on

eth

eles

s si

gni‹

can

t w

ays

that

no

-ti

on

s o

fd

iffe

ren

ce h

ave

stru

ctu

red

a m

ore

sta

ble,

dem

ocr

atic

Ger

man

so

ci-

ety,

eco

no

my,

an

d c

ult

ure

sin

ce 1

945.

Th

e te

nd

ency

of

po

st-1

945

Ger

man

s to

in

tern

atio

nal

ize

the

pro

blem

of

race

an

d u

nco

up

le i

t fr

om

th

e co

nte

mp

ora

ry G

erm

an c

on

text

has

ex-

ten

ded

to

th

e h

isto

rica

l sc

ho

lars

hip

of

the

po

stw

ar p

erio

d,

as w

e h

ave

no

ted

. We

wan

t to

insi

st t

hat

a n

atio

nal

izin

g p

olit

ics

of

race

per

sist

ed a

fter

1945

, if

in a

n a

lter

ed f

orm

. Pro

cess

es o

fra

cial

izat

ion

did

no

t en

d w

ith

th

ed

emis

e o

fG

erm

any’

s gl

ob

al p

olit

ical

an

d m

ilita

ry p

ower

. In

fac

t, o

ne

cou

ld a

rgu

e ju

st t

he

op

po

site

: th

at i

n t

imes

of

mili

tary

def

eat,

fo

reig

n o

c-cu

pat

ion

, an

d p

erce

ived

so

cial

an

d m

ora

l dis

ord

er, t

he

imp

etu

s fo

r a

po

li-ti

cs o

fn

atio

nal

red

e‹n

itio

n a

nd

rec

on

stit

uti

on

inte

nsi

‹ed

. As

the

follo

win

ges

says

mak

e cl

ear,

rac

ializ

ed n

oti

on

s o

fb

oth

Ger

man

co

hes

iven

ess

and

un

assi

mila

ble

dif

fere

nce

per

sist

ed a

nd

in

form

ed t

his

pro

cess

in

sig

ni‹

can

tan

d in

suf‹

cien

tly

ack

now

led

ged

way

s. A

fter

all,

Ger

man

y w

as d

ivid

ed in

totw

o C

old

War

sta

tes,

eac

h o

fw

hic

h f

aced

th

e ta

sk o

fn

atio

nal

rec

on

stru

c-ti

on

via

po

litic

al,

soci

al,

and

id

eolo

gica

l re

de‹

nit

ion

. H

ow t

hey

de‹

ned

them

selv

es a

nd

th

eir

Oth

ers

was

key

to

th

is p

roce

ss.

Wh

at l

esso

ns

wer

e

Intr

oduc

tion

19

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lear

ned

? W

hat

mo

del

s w

ere

emp

loye

d?

An

d a

lth

ou

gh r

acia

l dis

crim

inat

ion

was

ou

tlaw

ed i

n b

oth

sta

tes,

did

th

ey e

nvis

ion

so

ciet

ies

built

up

on

rac

ial

tole

ran

ce o

r in

tegr

atio

n?

Did

th

ey, i

n p

ract

ice,

pu

rsu

e b

oth

—o

r ei

ther

?

Race

and D

emocr

acy

Rec

onsi

der

ed

Wh

at e

mer

ges

fro

m t

his

tra

nsn

atio

nal

per

spec

tive

, es

pec

ially

fo

r th

e p

ost

-19

45 p

erio

d, i

s a

mo

re c

om

ple

x u

nd

erst

and

ing

of

the

rela

tio

nsh

ip b

etw

een

race

an

d d

emo

crac

y. A

s th

e U

.S. c

ase

dem

on

stra

tes

mo

st v

ivid

ly, c

om

mit

-m

ents

to

rac

ial

hie

rarc

hie

s an

d d

emo

crac

y w

ere

no

t in

com

pat

ible

. W

hile

Am

eric

an le

ader

s in

Ger

man

y p

reac

hed

dem

ocr

atiz

atio

n a

nd

so

ugh

t to

lay

its

fou

nd

atio

n t

hro

ugh

den

azi‹

cati

on

an

d r

eed

uca

tio

n,

this

mis

sio

n w

asca

rrie

d o

ut

init

ially

by

a se

greg

ated

U.S

. Arm

y. D

esp

ite

the

Am

eric

an m

il-it

ary’

s b

est

effo

rts

to d

own

pla

y th

e ra

cist

pra

ctic

es o

fit

s ow

n o

rgan

izat

ion

,th

e le

sso

n t

hat

wh

ite

sup

rem

acy

and

rac

ial

ineq

ual

ity

cou

ld c

oex

ist

wit

hd

emo

crac

y ca

me

thro

ugh

lo

ud

an

d c

lear

to

occ

up

ied

Ger

man

s.4

2D

uri

ng

the

init

ial e

ffo

rts

to m

ete

ou

t ju

stic

e, m

ore

over

, Am

eric

an o

f‹ci

als

insi

sted

on

iden

tify

ing

Naz

i vic

tim

s o

n t

he

bas

is o

fn

atio

nal

ity

and

ref

use

d t

o r

ec-

ogn

ize

Jew

s as

a

spec

ial

gro

up

th

at

cut

acro

ss

nat

ion

al

lines

. T

his

clas

si‹

cati

on

sys

tem

had

th

e ef

fect

of

ob

scu

rin

g th

e d

eep

ly r

acia

lized

dis

-ti

nct

ion

s th

at a

nim

ated

Naz

i dec

isio

ns

abo

ut

wh

o s

ho

uld

live

or

die

.43

Yet

by

1949

, as

Gro

ssm

ann

po

ints

ou

t, k

ey A

mer

ican

dip

lom

ats

such

as U

.S.

hig

h c

om

mis

sio

ner

Jo

hn

McC

loy

insi

sted

th

at t

he

Wes

t G

erm

anst

ance

tow

ard

its

rem

ain

ing

Jew

ish

po

pu

lati

on

wo

uld

ser

ve a

s a

mea

sure

of

the

cou

ntr

y’s

dem

ocr

atiz

atio

n.

Am

eric

an l

ead

ers

furt

her

su

gges

ted

th

atco

mm

itm

ent

to t

he

Wes

tern

alli

ance

co

mp

elle

d W

est

Ger

man

s to

ac-

kn

owle

dge

Ger

man

res

po

nsi

bili

ty fo

r th

e H

olo

cau

st.4

4A

ccep

tan

ce in

to th

efa

mily

of

Wes

tern

dem

ocr

acie

s th

us

imp

licit

ly r

equ

ired

a c

lear

rej

ecti

on

of

the

Naz

i ra

cial

pro

ject

. In

pra

ctic

e, t

his

mea

nt

that

th

e ca

tego

ries

of

race

tain

ted

by

the

Naz

i le

gacy

bec

ame

tab

oo,

an

d t

he

lan

guag

e o

fra

ce w

asla

rgel

y p

urg

ed fr

om

Wes

t Ger

man

pu

blic

dis

cou

rse.

At t

he

sam

e ti

me,

ther

ew

as n

o u

nif

orm

or

con

sist

ent

po

licy

agai

nst

rac

ism

; W

est

Ger

man

att

i-tu

des

tow

ard

rac

e sh

ifte

d m

ult

iple

tim

es i

n t

his

per

iod

of

›u

x an

d u

p-

hea

val.

Dif

fere

nt

stra

nd

s o

fra

cism

wer

e tr

eate

d d

iffe

ren

tly:

wh

erea

s it

was

po

ssib

le t

o a

cco

mm

od

ate

the

raci

alis

t b

inar

y o

fbl

ack

/wh

ite

in t

hin

kin

gab

ou

t A

fro

-Ger

man

“M

isch

ling

e,”

it s

imu

ltan

eou

sly

bec

ame

imp

oss

ible

to

invo

ke R

asse

in r

elat

ion

to

th

e Je

wis

h r

emn

ant

in t

he

Fed

eral

Rep

ubl

ican

d, m

ore

gen

eral

ly, a

s a

soci

al c

ateg

ory

in p

ubl

ic d

iscu

ssio

n.

20A

fter

th

e N

azi R

acia

l Sta

te

Th

is c

om

plic

ated

rel

atio

nsh

ip b

etw

een

rac

e an

d d

emo

crac

y is

wo

rth

emp

has

izin

g.4

5A

fter

all,

on

e o

fth

e ar

gum

ents

in f

avo

r o

fG

erm

an e

xcep

-ti

on

alis

m w

as i

ts p

urp

ort

edly

ove

rly

rigo

rou

s ra

cism

. T

her

e se

ems

to b

eso

me

resi

du

al a

ccep

tan

ce o

fth

is t

hes

is, s

ince

sch

ola

rs h

ave

oft

en o

per

ated

on

th

e as

sum

pti

on

th

at W

est

Ger

man

y w

as “

cure

d”

of

this

pro

blem

wit

hth

e ad

ven

t o

fd

emo

crac

y.4

6O

r, i

n t

he

case

of

Eas

t G

erm

any,

was

blo

cked

fro

m e

xpre

ssin

g ra

cist

val

ues

an

d b

ehav

iors

pu

blic

ly b

y th

e re

pre

ssiv

e st

ate

stru

ctu

res

of

soci

alis

m—

at le

ast

wh

ile t

hes

e w

ere

in p

lace

. Th

e la

ck o

fh

is-

tori

cal

atte

nti

on

to

po

stw

ar p

roce

sses

of

raci

aliz

atio

n e

vin

ces

an u

nq

ues

-ti

on

ing

acce

pta

nce

of

the

myt

ho

logy

of

Wes

tern

dem

ocr

acy,

wh

ich

su

g-ge

sts

that

dem

ocr

acy

actu

ally

en

acts

—an

d d

oes

n’t

just

rep

rese

nt

itse

lfas

asp

irin

g to

—p

olit

ical

an

d s

oci

al e

qu

alit

y. I

n t

he

case

of

Wes

t G

erm

any,

tak

ing

the

dis

cou

rse

of

dem

ocr

atiz

atio

n a

t fa

ce v

alu

e h

as m

ade

it d

if‹

cult

to g

rasp

th

e w

ays

in w

hic

h a

ssu

mp

tio

ns

of

dif

fere

nce

co

nti

nue

to s

hap

e so

-ci

al p

olic

y, s

oci

al p

ract

ices

, an

d c

ult

ura

l rep

rese

nta

tio

n.

Wh

ile s

cho

lars

hav

e n

ote

d h

ow G

erm

an l

aw h

as d

raw

n e

xclu

sive

bo

un

dar

ies

aro

un

d c

itiz

ensh

ip a

nd

nat

ion

al b

elo

ngi

ng

to e

xclu

de

mig

ran

tla

bo

rers

, th

ey h

ave

add

ress

ed t

his

pat

tern

in t

erm

s o

fec

on

om

ic a

nd

lab

or

nee

ds

or

imm

igra

tio

n la

w. T

her

e h

as g

ener

ally

bee

n v

ery

littl

e sc

ho

larl

y d

is-

cuss

ion

cas

tin

g th

e is

sue

in t

erm

s o

fra

cial

ized

co

nce

pti

on

s o

fn

atio

n, o

fa

lon

ger

his

tory

of

raci

al e

xclu

sio

n.4

7Y

et d

emo

crac

y an

d r

ace

wer

e in

ter-

twin

ed i

n W

est

Ger

man

y in

at

leas

t tw

o r

esp

ects

. O

ne

of

the

key

fou

nd

a-ti

on

s fo

r es

tabl

ish

ing

dem

ocr

acy

in t

he

Fed

eral

Rep

ubl

ic w

as b

uild

ing

ast

ron

g an

d s

tabl

e ec

on

om

y. T

his

go

al w

as a

pri

ori

ty fo

r W

este

rn fo

rces

an

dG

erm

an le

ader

s al

ike

bec

ause

of

the

way

s th

at e

con

om

ic v

ola

tilit

y h

ad u

n-

der

min

ed t

he

Wei

mar

Rep

ubl

ic.

As

rela

tio

ns

amo

ng

the

Alli

ed p

ower

ssh

ifte

d w

ith

th

e em

erge

nce

of

the

Co

ld W

ar, m

ore

over

, eco

no

mic

pro

sper

-it

y b

ecam

e a

key

com

po

nen

t o

fth

e A

mer

ican

an

d B

riti

sh e

ffo

rts

to p

re-

clu

de

com

mu

nis

t ta

keov

er a

nd

en

cou

rage

dem

ocr

acy

in t

hei

r o

ccu

pat

ion

zon

es.

Wit

h i

ts u

nex

pec

ted

ly q

uic

k e

con

om

ic r

ecov

ery,

how

ever

, th

e F

ed-

eral

Rep

ubl

ic r

equ

ired

mo

re m

anp

ower

th

an t

he

nat

ive

po

pu

lati

on

co

uld

pro

vid

e, if

it w

as a

lso

to

fu

l‹ll

the

con

serv

ativ

e so

cial

age

nd

a o

fre

turn

ing

Ger

man

wo

men

to

th

e h

om

e. T

o a

ddre

ss t

he

sho

rtag

e o

fac

cep

tabl

e w

ork

-er

s, t

he

gove

rnm

ent

emb

arke

d i

n 1

955

on

an

eig

hte

en-y

ear

per

iod

of

for-

eign

lab

or

recr

uit

men

t fr

om

man

y so

uth

ern

Med

iter

ran

ean

co

un

trie

s, i

n-

clu

din

g It

aly,

Sp

ain

, P

ort

uga

l, G

reec

e, Y

ugo

slav

ia,

and

Mu

slim

Tu

rkey

.U

ltim

atel

y, t

he

dec

isio

n t

o f

uel

th

e ec

on

om

ic m

irac

le w

ith

gu

est

wo

rker

sm

ean

t th

at t

he

pro

cess

of

forg

ing

Wes

t G

erm

an d

emo

crac

y n

eces

sari

ly in

-vo

lved

a r

enew

ed e

nga

gem

ent

wit

h d

iffe

ren

ce.

Intr

oduc

tion

21

Page 13: Chin and Fehrenbach - After the Nazi Racial State (Introduction)

Bu

t th

e su

cces

sfu

l bu

ildin

g o

fG

erm

an d

emo

crac

y al

so r

equ

ired

an

-o

ther

, ver

y sp

eci‹

c re

lati

on

ship

to

rac

e: r

epu

dia

tio

n o

fN

azi r

acis

m a

nd

re-

mem

bra

nce

of

Ger

man

co

mp

licit

y in

th

at r

acia

l pro

ject

. By

the

tim

e W

est

Ger

man

y b

ecam

e an

of‹

cial

sta

te,

fed

eral

lea

der

s su

ch a

s K

on

rad

Ad

e-n

auer

un

der

sto

od

th

at a

ccep

tan

ce a

s a

full

par

tner

in

th

e W

este

rn d

emo

-cr

atic

alli

ance

dem

and

ed p

ubl

ic a

dm

issi

on

of

Ger

man

y’s

resp

on

sib

ility

for

the

Ho

loca

ust

.48

Fo

r th

e 19

68 g

ener

atio

n a

dec

ade

and

a h

alf

late

r, i

t w

asth

eir

par

ents

’st

ubb

orn

sile

nce

ab

ou

t th

e d

etai

ls o

fth

e N

azi

per

iod

th

atp

rove

d t

he

tho

rou

gh c

orr

up

tio

n o

fW

est

Ger

man

dem

ocr

acy.

Tru

e d

emo

c-ra

cy, a

cco

rdin

g to

man

y o

fth

ese

you

ng

peo

ple

, was

gro

un

ded

in a

nd

co

uld

on

ly b

e ac

hie

ved

by

seri

ou

s Vergangenheitsbew

ältigung.

Th

is l

efti

st g

ener

atio

nal

cri

tiq

ue

hel

ped

so

lidif

y th

e d

eep

co

nn

ecti

on

bet

wee

n—

ind

eed

, th

e in

sep

arab

ility

of—

the

Wes

t G

erm

an d

emo

crat

icac

hie

vem

ent

and

rej

ecti

on

of

the

raci

st p

ast

(alo

ng

wit

h a

n e

mb

race

of

its

mo

re p

osi

tive

var

ian

t, H

olo

cau

st r

emem

bra

nce

). I

nd

eed

, o

ne

of

the

rea-

son

s C

han

cello

r H

elm

ut

Ko

hl

pro

voke

d s

uch

an

ou

tcry

du

rin

g th

e 19

85B

itbu

rg a

ffai

r w

as t

he

imp

licit

su

gges

tio

n t

hat

fo

ur

dec

ades

of

dem

ocr

atic

com

mit

men

t h

ad b

ou

ght

Wes

t G

erm

any

the

righ

t to

ab

and

on

its

self

-co

n-

scio

usl

y ci

rcu

msp

ect

po

stu

re o

fre

mo

rse

for

the

pas

t. H

is in

vita

tio

n t

o U

.S.

pre

sid

ent

Ro

nal

d R

eaga

n t

o la

y a

wre

ath

at

the

Bit

burg

mili

tary

cem

eter

yin

sp

ite

of

the

pre

sen

ce o

fS

S g

rave

s w

as r

ou

nd

ly c

on

dem

ned

—in

lar

gep

art

bec

ause

it s

eem

ed t

o a

sser

t th

at Vergangenheitsbew

ältigung

no

lon

ger

nee

d b

e at

the

cen

ter

of

Ger

man

dem

ocr

acy.

Th

e fa

ct th

at a

pro

per

att

itu

de

tow

ard

th

e N

azi

pas

t h

as r

emai

ned

a c

orn

erst

on

e o

fG

erm

an d

emo

crac

yw

as s

tark

ly il

lust

rate

d in

th

e re

cen

t re

spo

nse

to

th

e H

itle

r sa

lute

mim

ed b

yN

iger

ian

so

ccer

pla

yer

Ad

ebow

ale

Ogu

ngb

ure

. L

oca

l au

tho

riti

es c

on

-d

emn

ed h

is i

llega

l ge

stu

re a

s im

pro

per

an

d a

nti

thet

ical

to

a d

emo

crat

icG

erm

an s

oci

ety,

mo

re c

on

cern

ed w

ith

th

e le

galit

y o

fh

is a

ct t

han

th

e fa

ctth

at O

gun

gbu

re w

as r

esp

on

din

g to

un

dis

guis

ed a

cts

of

raci

sm.

Th

is in

cid

ent

mak

es c

lear

th

at t

he

dem

ocr

atic

imp

uls

e to

elim

inat

e al

ltr

ace

of

Naz

i ra

cism

has

no

t ro

ote

d o

ut

raci

st a

ctio

n o

r ra

cial

ized

un

der

-st

and

ings

of

dif

fere

nce

fro

m G

erm

an d

emo

crat

ic s

oci

ety.

Th

e sa

me

is t

rue

for

the

hab

itu

al c

om

mem

ora

tio

ns

of

the

Ho

loca

ust

sin

ce t

he

1980

s. T

he

po

stw

ar G

erm

an in

clin

atio

n t

o d

e‹n

e a

new

, dem

ocr

atic

nat

ion

al id

enti

tyin

term

s o

f“c

olle

ctiv

e gu

ilt”

and

a “

com

mu

nit

y o

ffa

te”

rein

scri

bed

an

eth

-n

ical

ly e

xclu

sive

no

tio

n o

fb

elo

ngi

ng.

On

ly t

ho

se w

ho

co

uld

cla

im a

ge-

nea

logi

cal c

on

nec

tio

n to

the

per

pet

rato

rs ‹

t wit

hin

this

co

nce

pti

on

of

Ger

-m

an

iden

tity

. S

om

ewh

at

iro

nic

ally

, th

en,

the

very

ef

fort

to

em

bra

ced

emo

crac

y by

ato

nin

g fo

r th

e N

azi p

ast

inad

vert

entl

y b

ecam

e a

too

l fo

r re

-

22A

fter

th

e N

azi R

acia

l Sta

te

con

stit

uti

ng

a h

om

ogen

eou

s G

erm

an n

atio

n.

Th

e p

reo

ccu

pat

ion

wit

hH

olo

cau

st r

emem

bra

nce

pre

ven

ted

Ger

man

s fr

om

see

ing

oth

er,

mo

re i

m-

med

iate

form

s o

fra

ce t

hin

kin

g an

d r

acis

m t

hat

per

sist

in t

hei

r d

emo

crac

y.

Fro

m P

ost

fasc

ist

to P

ost

–C

old

War

and B

eyond

Wh

at w

ork

do

es fo

cus

on

“ra

ce”

as a

cat

ego

ry d

o?

We

wan

t to

su

gges

t th

atit

wo

uld

bo

th p

rovi

de

a b

ette

r u

nd

erst

and

ing

of

Ger

man

his

tory

an

d c

on

-te

mp

ora

ry s

oci

al p

robl

ems

and

allo

w c

om

par

iso

ns

bet

wee

n t

he

Ger

man

exp

erie

nce

an

d t

hat

of

oth

er E

uro

pea

n (

and

no

n-E

uro

pea

n)

cou

ntr

ies.

An

inte

rnat

ion

al p

ersp

ecti

ve a

llow

s u

s to

pla

ce t

he

Ger

man

cas

e in

dia

logu

ew

ith

oth

er n

atio

nal

deb

ates

ab

ou

t ra

ce a

nd

dif

fere

nce

—n

ot

on

ly B

rita

in,

Fra

nce

, an

d o

ther

Eu

rop

ean

co

un

trie

s th

at h

ave

stru

ggle

d w

ith

div

ersi

tyaf

ter

Wo

rld

War

II4

9bu

t al

so t

he

Un

ited

Sta

tes,

Can

ada,

an

d A

ust

ralia

.A

tten

tio

n t

o t

he

cate

gory

of

race

an

d t

he

pro

cess

es o

fra

cial

izat

ion

also

off

ers

an o

pp

ort

un

ity

to r

efra

me

the

po

stw

ar p

erio

d a

nd

su

bst

anti

ally

reth

ink

its

de‹

nin

g n

arra

tive

s. S

ince

th

e 19

50s,

Wes

t G

erm

ans

con

stru

cted

for

them

selv

es a

nd

po

ster

ity

the

per

cep

tio

n o

fh

avin

g p

rod

uce

d a

“ra

ce-

less

”p

olit

y an

d s

oci

ety

thro

ugh

th

e re

ady

ado

pti

on

of

dem

ocr

atic

fo

rms

and

val

ues

. A

lth

ou

gh r

acis

t b

ehav

iors

an

d r

acia

lized

so

cial

an

d e

con

om

icp

olic

ies

per

sist

ed a

fter

194

5, t

hey

wer

e ra

rely

rec

ogn

ized

as

such

. T

o b

esu

re,

his

tori

ans

hav

e n

ote

d “

epis

od

es”

of

anti

sem

itis

m a

nd

xen

op

ho

bia

sin

ce 1

945,

bu

t th

ese

hav

e b

een

un

der

sto

od

as

per

iod

ic p

hen

om

ena

mar

-gi

nal

to

th

e b

road

er t

raje

cto

ries

of

the

Fed

eral

Rep

ubl

ic’s

his

tory

, w

hic

hte

nd

s to

be

nar

rate

d t

hro

ugh

a m

ore

po

siti

ve fo

cus

on

dem

ocr

atiz

atio

n, r

e-co

nst

ruct

ion

, pro

sper

ity,

Atl

anti

cism

, an

d E

uro

pea

n in

tegr

atio

n.5

0

Giv

en th

is p

ersp

ecti

ve, i

t is

per

hap

s n

ot s

urp

risi

ng

that

wit

h th

e en

d o

fth

e C

old

War

, th

e d

emis

e o

fth

e E

ast

Ger

man

so

cial

ist

stat

e, a

nd

th

e ad

-ve

nt

of

Ger

man

un

i‹ca

tio

n i

n 1

990,

in

cid

ents

of

raci

st a

nd

xen

op

ho

bic

slu

rs a

nd

vio

len

ce—

like

tho

se d

irec

ted

at

socc

er p

laye

r A

deb

owal

e O

gun

g-bu

re—

wer

e at

trib

ute

d t

o t

he

raci

st p

rocl

ivit

ies

of

form

er E

ast

Ger

man

s. I

nth

is s

cen

ario

, a p

rogr

essi

ve W

est

Ger

man

so

ciet

y n

ow h

ad t

o c

on

ten

d w

ith

its

pre

jud

iced

Eas

t G

erm

an c

ou

nte

rpar

t. S

ince

199

0, t

hen

, ra

cism

an

dxe

no

ph

ob

ia h

ave

bee

n i

nte

rpre

ted

mo

re o

ften

th

an n

ot

as a

n i

rasc

ible

in

-h

erit

ance

of

a n

ow d

efu

nct

Eas

t G

erm

an s

oci

alis

t o

rgan

izat

ion

an

d p

olit

i-ca

l id

eolo

gy.

As

such

, th

ey m

ark

a p

ersi

sten

t “d

iffe

ren

ce”

fro

m t

he

Wes

tG

erm

an d

emo

crat

ic e

tho

s. I

t is

no

tew

ort

hy t

hat

th

is a

nal

ysis

co

nti

nues

to

mar

gin

aliz

e th

e p

lace

of

raci

sm i

n G

erm

an s

oci

ety,

if

in a

so

mew

hat

dif

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Introduction

23

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fere

nt

way

th

an b

efo

re 1

990.

Rat

her

th

an lo

cate

rac

ism

in t

he

acti

on

s o

fa

han

dfu

l o

fh

atef

ul

extr

emis

ts,

as h

ad b

een

do

ne

sin

ce t

he

1950

s in

Wes

tG

erm

any,

it

is n

ow l

oca

ted

in

th

e G

erm

an E

ast

wh

ere

wes

tern

(G

erm

an)

dem

ocr

atic

cu

ltu

re h

as n

ot

yet

“tak

en.”

(Aft

er a

ll, if

ther

e is

an

arg

um

ent

for

“co

nti

nuit

y”in

po

stw

ar G

erm

an h

isto

ry i

t is

evi

den

t in

sch

ola

rsh

ipco

nn

ecti

ng

the

Naz

i dic

tato

rsh

ip w

ith

th

e “s

eco

nd

dic

tato

rsh

ip”

of

the

So

-ci

alis

t U

nit

y P

arty

, or

SE

D.)

Su

ch c

on

cep

tual

fra

min

g o

fth

e p

ost

–Co

ld W

ar o

rder

see

min

gly

de-

rive

s fr

om

, an

d

per

pet

uat

es,

a ce

leb

rato

ry

nar

rati

ve

of

the

stab

ility

,st

ren

gth

, an

d s

ucc

ess

of

Wes

t G

erm

an c

apit

alis

t d

emo

crac

y. I

t o

nce

aga

ind

isco

ura

ges

a cr

itic

al s

elf-

exam

inat

ion

am

on

g (W

est)

Ger

man

s w

hen

it

com

es t

o i

ssu

es o

fn

ativ

e ra

cial

id

eolo

gy a

nd

pra

ctic

e. I

n f

act,

on

e m

igh

tsa

y th

at u

ni‹

cati

on

allo

wed

cit

izen

s an

d s

cho

lars

of

the

Fed

eral

Rep

ubl

icto

per

sist

in

ign

ori

ng

issu

es o

fco

nti

nuit

y ac

ross

194

5 by

off

-lo

adin

g co

n-

cern

s ab

ou

t ra

cism

to

co

llect

ive

han

d-w

rin

gin

g ov

er t

he

resi

du

al e

ffec

ts o

fso

cial

ism

’s c

orr

osi

ve im

pac

t o

n s

oci

al b

ehav

iors

an

d v

alu

es. T

he

lack

of

am

ore

gen

eral

ized

att

enti

on

to

“ra

ce”

in t

he

con

tem

po

rary

Fed

eral

Rep

ub

-lic

may

wel

l be

a fu

nct

ion

, in

par

t, o

fW

este

rn t

riu

mp

hal

ism

fo

llow

ing

the

Co

ld W

ar.

Th

is i

s n

ot

to a

rgu

e th

at t

he

Ger

man

Dem

ocr

atic

Rep

ubl

ic a

nd

Eas

tG

erm

an s

oci

ety

sho

uld

be

exem

pt

fro

m c

riti

cal

scru

tiny

. It

is

wo

rth

co

n-

sid

erin

g w

hy q

ues

tio

ns

of

“rac

e”ar

e n

ot

freq

uen

tly

po

sed

in

rel

atio

n t

oE

ast

Ger

man

his

tory

—o

r ev

en p

ost

war

Eas

tern

Eu

rop

ean

his

tory

mo

rege

ner

ally

. In

th

e ca

se o

fE

ast

Ger

man

y, t

his

to

o m

ay b

e a

lega

cy o

fC

old

War

po

litic

s. A

fter

all,

th

e S

oci

alis

t U

nit

y P

arty

(S

ED

) by

th

e la

te 1

940s

in-

crea

sin

gly

refu

sed

to

sp

eak

th

e la

ngu

age

of

“rac

e”in

pu

blic

in

rel

atio

n t

oit

s ow

n s

oci

ety.

In

stea

d, t

hey

en

gage

d in

an

ideo

logi

cal s

trat

egy

of

pro

ject

-in

g “r

ace”

and

its

soci

al il

ls o

nto

th

e co

nte

mp

ora

ry c

apit

alis

t W

est

and

its

con

tem

pti

ble

Naz

i pre

dec

esso

r.5

1H

owev

er, d

esp

ite

of‹

cial

SE

D d

enu

nci

a-ti

on

s o

fW

este

rn a

nd

esp

ecia

lly A

mer

ican

rac

ism

an

d r

acis

t p

ract

ices

, th

ep

olit

ics

of

dif

fere

nce

per

sist

ed a

fter

194

5 in

Eas

t G

erm

any

as w

ell:

wh

eth

erin

ear

ly p

ost

war

rea

ctio

ns

to p

erce

ived

rac

ializ

ed r

ape

by S

ovie

t so

ldie

rsan

d d

ebat

es a

bo

ut

wh

o s

ho

uld

cov

er t

he

cost

s an

d c

are

of

un

wan

ted

“Rus

senk

inde

r”o

fS

ovie

t p

ater

nit

y o

r in

late

r in

stan

ces

of

anti

sem

itis

m in

pu

rges

of

the

Eas

t G

erm

an s

oci

alis

t le

ader

ship

.52

By

the

1970

s, t

he

SE

Dp

arti

cip

ated

in t

he

of‹

cial

rec

ruit

men

t o

f“c

on

trac

t w

ork

ers”

fro

m P

ola

nd

,V

ietn

am,

Cu

ba,

An

gola

, an

d M

oza

mb

iqu

e, w

ho

wer

e se

greg

ated

in

tow

ork

ers’

ho

usi

ng

and

del

iber

atel

y is

ola

ted

fro

m th

e d

aily

live

s o

fth

eir

Ger

-m

an c

ou

nte

rpar

ts, b

ut

wh

o n

on

eth

eles

s fu

eled

Eas

t G

erm

any’

s m

ino

r ec

o-

24A

fter

th

e N

azi R

acia

l Sta

te

no

mic

mir

acle

.53

We

nee

d t

o k

now

mo

re p

reci

sely

how

an

d t

o w

hat

po

liti-

cal a

nd

so

cial

eff

ect

the

GD

R m

ob

ilize

d a

so

cial

ist

dis

cou

rse

and

pra

ctic

eo

fd

iffe

ren

ce.

Yet

eve

n th

is c

urs

ory

gla

nce

yie

lds

intr

igu

ing

anal

ytic

al p

oss

ibili

ties

. It

is w

ort

h n

oti

ng,

fo

r ex

amp

le,

that

lik

e ca

pit

alis

t W

est

Ger

man

y, s

oci

alis

tE

ast

Ger

man

y to

o s

ou

ght

to c

ult

ivat

e p

ost

war

pro

sper

ity

thro

ugh

th

e u

seo

fm

igra

nt

fore

ign

lab

or

and

po

licie

s fa

vori

ng

thei

r so

cial

iso

lati

on

rat

her

than

in

tegr

atio

n.

Bo

ldly

pu

t, o

ne

cou

ld a

rgu

e th

at b

oth

Co

ld W

ar G

er-

man

ys u

ltim

atel

y st

ruct

ure

d e

thni

cize

d ec

onom

ies

to m

eet

lab

or

nee

ds

and

sup

ply

th

eir

nat

ion

al p

op

ula

tio

ns

wit

h a

ccep

tabl

e le

vels

of

con

sum

ergo

od

s. Y

et t

he

fact

, an

d h

isto

rica

l ef

fect

, o

fth

ese

eth

nic

ally

art

icu

late

dec

on

om

ic p

olic

ies—

and

th

e et

hn

ical

ly s

egm

ente

d e

con

om

ies

they

pro

-d

uce

d—

has

no

t re

gist

ered

in

bu

rgeo

nin

g so

cial

an

d c

ult

ura

l h

isto

ries

of

con

sum

pti

on

an

d c

on

sum

eris

m i

n t

he

Ger

man

an

d E

uro

pea

n c

on

text

.54

Rat

her

th

an i

nfo

rm t

he

bro

ader

his

tori

ogra

phy

an

d h

isto

riog

rap

hic

al d

e-b

ates

of

the

po

stw

ar p

erio

d,

dis

cuss

ion

s o

ffo

reig

n l

abo

r ar

e m

ost

ly c

on

-si

gned

to

th

e n

arro

wer

pu

rvie

w o

fm

ino

rity

, la

bo

r, a

nd

to

a l

esse

r ex

ten

t,ec

on

om

ic h

isto

ry.5

5

The

Ger

man

exp

erie

nce,

and

its

Col

d W

ar f

ram

ing,

may

be

inst

ruct

ive

whe

n co

nsid

erin

g E

urop

e as

a w

hole

. Aft

er a

ll, t

he im

puls

e fo

r ra

cial

rec

on-

stru

ctio

n w

as h

ardl

y a

uniq

uely

Ger

man

ent

erpr

ise

afte

r 19

45.

An

impo

r-ta

nt le

gacy

of

Naz

i mili

tary

agg

ress

ion,

bey

ond

the

ideo

logi

cal d

ivis

ion

ofE

urop

e in

to t

wo

Col

d W

ar c

amps

, was

its

dem

ogra

phic

and

eth

nic

reor

der-

ing.

One

way

of

thin

king

abo

ut t

his

is t

o po

se a

pro

voca

tive

que

stio

n: H

oww

ould

we

wri

te t

he p

ostw

ar h

isto

ry o

fth

e N

azi

raci

al e

mpi

re i

n E

urop

e?H

ow w

ould

we

inve

stig

ate

the

afte

rmat

h of

raci

al a

nd e

ugen

ic i

deol

ogie

s,po

licie

s, a

nd p

ract

ices

tha

t ac

hiev

ed s

uch

radi

cal a

nd m

urde

rous

exp

ress

ion

unde

r th

e N

azi

regi

me

and

its

aggr

essi

ve w

ar o

fco

nque

st?

The

con

se-

quen

ces

ofth

e N

azi

impe

rial

izin

g pr

ojec

t in

Eur

ope

are

only

beg

inni

ng t

obe

exp

lore

d by

his

tori

ans,

and

mor

e at

tent

ion

need

s to

be

devo

ted

to t

hew

ar’s

aft

erm

ath

as a

con

stit

utiv

e pe

riod

of

cont

empo

rary

Ger

man

y an

d E

u-ro

pe. S

ome

hist

oric

al a

tten

tion

has

bee

n de

vote

d to

the

post

war

exp

erie

nces

ofin

divi

dual

gro

ups

ofpe

rsec

uted

min

orit

ies

acro

ss E

urop

e, i

nclu

ding

Jew

s, S

inti

, an

d R

oma.

56

Her

e ag

ain,

em

ploy

ing

“rac

e”as

an

anal

ytic

alfr

amew

ork

(foc

usin

g on

wha

t B

ruba

ker

has

calle

d “p

roce

sses

ofra

cial

iza-

tion

, eth

nici

zati

on, a

nd n

atio

naliz

atio

n”)

seem

s es

peci

ally

pro

duct

ive.

57

Aft

er a

ll, d

uri

ng

Wo

rld

War

II,

Eu

rop

ean

co

un

trie

s ex

per

ien

ced

his

-to

rica

lly

un

pre

ced

ente

d

forc

ed

po

pu

lati

on

tr

ansf

ers

and

lo

sses

, an

dw

arti

me

dis

pla

cem

ents

cre

ated

a d

emog

rap

hic

rev

olu

tio

n a

cro

ss m

uch

of

Intr

oduc

tion

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Eu

rop

e, b

ut

par

ticu

larl

y in

th

e E

ast.

58

By

war

’s e

nd

, Eu

rop

ean

s as

a w

ho

leen

gage

d i

n t

he

pro

ject

of

reo

rder

ing

nat

ion

al s

oci

etie

s. W

ith

th

e ex

plic

itag

reem

ent

of

Wes

tern

dem

ocr

atic

nat

ion

s lik

e th

e U

nit

ed S

tate

s an

dB

rita

in,

mas

s ex

pu

lsio

ns

of

eth

nic

Ger

man

s o

ccu

rred

fro

m C

zech

osl

ova-

kia

, Hu

nga

ry, R

om

ania

, Yu

gosl

avia

, Po

lan

d, a

nd

th

e B

alti

c st

ates

. In

add

i-ti

on

, H

un

gari

ans

wer

e d

epo

rted

fro

m C

zech

osl

ovak

ia;

Slo

vak

s w

ere

de-

po

rted

fro

m H

un

gary

; U

kra

inia

ns

and

Bel

oru

ssia

ns

wer

e d

epo

rted

fro

mP

ola

nd

to

th

e S

ovie

t U

nio

n; P

ole

s w

ere

dep

ort

ed f

rom

th

e S

ovie

t U

nio

n t

oP

ola

nd

. Vio

len

t p

ost

war

pog

rom

s d

rove

Jew

s o

ut

of

Po

lan

d a

nd

th

e S

ovie

tU

kra

ine

and

in

to o

ccu

pie

d G

erm

any.

Wit

hin

th

e S

ovie

t U

nio

n,

the

Red

Arm

y an

d S

ecre

t P

olic

e u

nd

erto

ok

rig

oro

us

eth

nic

cle

ansi

ng

agai

nst

na-

tio

nal

gro

up

s in

th

e w

est

and

so

uth

wes

t,5

9an

d c

on

sign

ed t

ho

usa

nd

s o

fo

ther

eth

nic

itie

s to

pri

son

cam

ps

and

sla

ve la

bo

r.6

0

Th

is w

as n

otp

rim

arily

th

e re

sult

of

po

stw

ar c

hao

s. R

ath

er, t

he

vict

o-

rio

us

Alli

ed g

over

nm

ents

of

Wo

rld

War

II

agre

ed i

n p

rin

cip

le t

hat

eth

nic

mix

ing

had

his

tori

cally

cau

sed

co

n›

ict

in E

uro

pe.

Th

e “o

rder

ly m

igra

tio

n”

of

min

ori

ties

to th

eir

nat

ion

al h

om

es w

as e

xpec

ted

to s

ecu

re p

eace

an

d E

u-

rop

ean

sta

bili

ty. A

s W

inst

on

Ch

urc

hill

pu

t it

, “th

ere

will

be

no

mix

ture

of

po

pu

lati

on

s to

cau

se e

nd

less

tro

ubl

e .

. .

A c

lean

sw

eep

will

be

mad

e.”6

1

Fo

llow

ing

on

the

hee

ls o

fN

azi G

erm

any’

s d

emog

rap

hic

rev

olu

tio

n in

Cen

-tr

al a

nd

Eas

tern

Eu

rop

e, e

arly

po

stw

ar e

ffo

rts

succ

eed

ed in

pro

du

cin

g et

h-

nic

ally

ho

mog

eneo

us

nat

ion

s. T

he

succ

ess

of

this

pro

cess

of

eth

nic

ho

-m

ogen

izat

ion

w

as

assu

red

by

S

ovie

t m

igh

t an

d

may

h

ave

aid

ed

the

esta

blis

hm

ent o

fC

om

mu

nis

t ru

le th

rou

gho

ut E

aste

rn a

nd

Cen

tral

Eu

rop

e.T

he

aim

, acc

ord

ing

to h

isto

rian

Mar

k K

ram

er, w

as t

o “

resh

ape

the

eth

nic

con

tou

rs o

fth

e re

gio

n p

sych

olo

gica

lly a

s w

ell a

s p

hysi

cally

.”6

2

So

far

, th

ese

forc

ed p

op

ula

tio

n t

ran

sfer

s in

Cen

tral

an

d E

aste

rn E

u-

rop

e af

ter

Wo

rld

War

II

hav

e b

een

an

alyz

ed b

y sp

ecia

lists

as

exam

ple

s o

f“e

thn

ic c

lean

sin

g”an

d a

n in

tern

atio

nal

str

ateg

y w

ith

tw

o d

isti

nct

age

nd

as:

‹rs

t, t

o e

nsu

re p

olit

ical

sta

bili

ty i

n a

his

tori

cally

vo

lati

le r

egio

n,

and

sec

-o

nd

, to

fac

ilita

te S

ovie

t co

ntr

ol a

nd

th

e in

stal

lati

on

of

com

mu

nis

t go

vern

-m

ents

th

rou

gho

ut

the

regi

on

.63

How

ever

, th

is h

eavy

-han

ded

att

emp

t to

def

use

th

e n

atio

nal

-eth

nic

dem

and

s o

fm

ino

riti

es w

ith

in n

atio

ns

thro

ugh

forc

ible

exp

uls

ion

par

adox

ical

ly r

ein

forc

ed a

co

mm

itm

ent

to e

thn

ic n

a-ti

on

alis

m d

emog

rap

hic

ally

, an

d p

erh

aps

po

litic

ally

an

d p

sych

olo

gica

lly. B

ysu

gges

tin

g th

at “

mix

ture

”w

as p

olit

ical

ly d

ange

rou

s an

d d

esta

bili

zin

g, t

he

po

stw

ar p

olit

ical

str

ateg

y o

fet

hn

ic c

lean

sin

g co

ntr

ibu

ted

to th

e cu

ltiv

atio

no

fa

cult

ure

of

pu

rity

.64

Cer

tain

ly t

he

rigo

rou

s at

tem

pts

by

num

ero

us

nat

ion

s to

ho

mog

eniz

e

26A

fter

th

e N

azi R

acia

l Sta

te

thei

r p

op

ula

tio

ns

beg

the

qu

esti

on

of

no

t wh

eth

er, b

ut in

wha

t spe

ci‹

c w

ays,

the

bro

ader

Eu

rop

ean

pro

ject

of

po

stw

ar r

eco

nst

ruct

ion

was

rac

ializ

ed.

How

did

pre

war

rac

ial

ideo

logi

es a

nd

war

tim

e N

azi

raci

al p

olic

ies

affe

ctp

ost

war

nat

ion

al r

eco

nst

ruct

ion

s?6

5O

n t

he

inti

mat

e so

cial

sca

le o

fth

efa

mily

, fo

r ex

amp

le, i

t w

ou

ld b

e in

stru

ctiv

e to

follo

w t

he

po

stw

ar le

gal d

is-

po

siti

on

an

d g

eogr

aph

ical

dis

per

sio

n o

fw

ar c

hild

ren

, nu

mb

erin

g in

th

eh

un

dre

ds

of

tho

usa

nd

s, w

ho

se ‹

nal

pla

cem

ent s

om

etim

es to

ok

a g

oo

d h

alf

dec

ade

and

th

e n

ego

tiat

ion

of

mu

ltip

le n

atio

nal

leg

al c

od

es t

o d

eter

min

e.T

his

am

orp

ho

us

cate

gory

of

child

ren

en

com

pas

sed

th

e ill

egit

imat

e ch

il-d

ren

fat

her

ed b

y G

erm

an t

roo

ps

in t

he

con

qu

ered

an

d o

ccu

pie

d t

erri

tori

eso

fw

arti

me

Eu

rop

e; t

he

pre

do

min

antl

y C

zech

an

d P

olis

h c

hild

ren

kid

-n

app

ed, “

Ary

aniz

ed,”

and

ad

op

ted

by

Ger

man

fam

ilies

in N

azi-

do

min

ated

Eu

rop

e; c

hild

ren

of

vari

ou

s n

atio

nal

itie

s an

d e

thn

icit

ies,

incl

ud

ing

Jew

ish

,w

ho

mir

acu

lou

sly

surv

ived

bei

ng

targ

eted

fo

r d

epo

rtat

ion

, sl

ave

lab

or,

or

dea

th; a

nd

the

po

stw

ar o

ccu

pat

ion

ch

ildre

n o

fA

llied

pat

ern

ity

bo

rn to

Eu

-ro

pea

n w

om

en o

fva

rio

us

nat

ion

alit

ies.

Th

e in

tern

atio

nal

deb

ates

an

d n

a-ti

on

al p

olit

ics

con

cern

ing

the

“pro

per

pla

cem

ent”

of

such

ch

ildre

n a

re o

nly

beg

inn

ing

to b

e ex

plo

red

by

his

tori

ans.

Yet

th

ese

neg

oti

atio

ns

con

stit

ute

ari

ch t

rove

of

evid

ence

an

d a

ssu

mp

tio

ns

rega

rdin

g em

ergi

ng

po

stw

ar n

o-

tio

ns

of

nat

ion

al a

nd

eth

nic

bel

on

gin

g in

Eu

rop

ean

so

ciet

ies.

As

such

, th

eym

ay s

ugg

est

the

lega

cy o

fN

azi v

iole

nce

an

d r

acia

l hie

rarc

hie

s fo

r po

stfa

s-ci

st s

oci

al id

eolo

gies

th

rou

gho

ut

con

tin

enta

l Eu

rop

e.6

6

Wh

at w

ou

ld h

app

en t

o o

ur

un

der

stan

din

g o

fp

ost

war

Eu

rop

ean

his

-to

ry,

and

ou

r co

nce

ptu

aliz

atio

n o

f“E

uro

pe”

mo

re g

ener

ally

, if

we

at-

ten

ded

to

th

e m

om

ents

wh

en “

race

”—in

th

e fo

rm o

fra

cial

ized

lan

guag

e,p

olic

y, s

oci

al b

ehav

iors

, an

d v

alu

ativ

e d

isti

nct

ion

s—ge

ts e

nga

ged

? H

oww

ou

ld w

e p

erio

diz

e th

e so

cial

po

litic

s o

fra

ce in

Eu

rop

e? W

ou

ld a

tten

tio

nto

su

ch a

n a

lter

nat

ive

chro

no

logy

alt

er t

he

his

tori

cal n

arra

tive

s o

fp

ost

war

Eu

rop

ean

rec

on

stru

ctio

n?

Th

e h

isto

rica

l n

arra

tive

s o

fC

old

War

po

litic

s?O

fca

pit

alis

t an

d s

oci

alis

t ec

on

om

ies?

An

d m

ost

par

ticu

larl

y, o

fd

emo

c-ra

cy a

nd

th

e p

roce

sses

of

dem

ocr

atiz

atio

n, w

het

her

po

stw

ar o

r p

ost

–Co

ldW

ar?

We

thin

k s

o. F

ocu

sin

g o

n p

roce

sses

of

eth

nic

izat

ion

an

d r

acia

lizat

ion

may

be

a u

sefu

l w

ay t

o b

egin

to

syn

thes

ize

wh

at h

ave

bee

n r

elat

ivel

y d

is-

cret

e h

isto

rica

l n

arra

tive

s re

gard

ing

po

pu

lati

on

d

isp

lace

men

ts,

eth

nic

clea

nsi

ng,

dec

olo

niz

atio

n a

nd

po

stco

lon

ial a

dju

stm

ents

, im

mig

rati

on

, an

dla

bo

r m

igra

tio

n.

Un

til

now

, h

isto

ries

of

soci

al i

nte

grat

ion

an

d s

oci

al d

isar

ticu

lati

on

hav

e co

nti

nued

to

be

stru

ctu

red

in a

cco

rdan

ce w

ith

th

e p

olit

ical

geo

grap

hyo

fth

e C

old

War

. Th

ere

has

bee

n o

ne

nar

rati

ve m

od

el fo

r W

este

rn E

uro

pe,

Intr

oduc

tion

27

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typ

ical

ly k

eyed

to th

e ch

alle

nge

s o

fp

ost

gen

oci

dal

Jew

ish

-Gen

tile

rel

atio

ns,

po

stco

lon

ial

imm

igra

tio

n,

lab

or

mig

rati

on

, an

d a

gro

win

g m

ult

icu

ltu

ral

po

pu

lati

on

.67

An

d a

no

ther

, p

oss

ibly

mo

re c

on

ten

tio

us

nar

rati

ve f

or

Eas

t-er

n E

uro

pe,

wh

ich

has

deb

ated

th

e so

cial

ly s

tab

ilizi

ng

effe

cts

of

soci

alis

tre

gim

es,

the

soci

ally

des

tab

ilizi

ng

effe

cts

of

thei

r d

emis

e, a

nd

wh

eth

er o

rw

hy E

aste

rn E

uro

pe

sin

ce 1

990

has

bee

n m

ore

pro

ne

than

its

Wes

tern

nei

ghb

ors

to

pu

rsu

e co

nte

mp

ora

ry p

olit

ics

of

eth

nic

, rat

her

th

an c

ivic

, na-

tio

nal

ism

. Th

e te

rms

of

such

deb

ates

su

gges

t th

at a

rig

oro

us

reth

ink

ing

of

ideo

logi

cal b

iase

s m

ay b

e in

ord

er. A

fter

all,

th

e co

nce

ptu

al d

ich

oto

my

of

“civ

ic”

vers

us

“eth

nic

”n

atio

nal

ism

, in

wh

ich

th

e fo

rmer

des

crib

es t

he

ra-

tio

nal

po

stw

ar W

est

wh

ile t

he

latt

er d

amn

s th

e fr

acti

ou

s p

ost

–Co

ld W

arE

ast,

bet

ter

serv

es p

urp

ose

s o

fm

ora

lizin

g th

an h

isto

rica

l an

alys

is.6

8A

t-te

nd

ing

to t

he

his

tori

cal p

roce

sses

of

raci

aliz

atio

n a

nd

eth

nic

izat

ion

acr

oss

po

stw

ar E

uro

pe

wo

uld

leve

l th

e id

eolo

gica

l pla

yin

g ‹

eld

bet

wee

n E

ast

and

Wes

t. I

nd

eed

, it m

ay p

rove

pro

du

ctiv

e in

bre

akin

g th

e st

ran

gleh

old

of

Co

ldW

ar c

on

cep

tual

izat

ion

s an

d y

ield

un

pre

dic

tabl

e an

swer

s to

rec

ent

qu

es-

tio

ns

rega

rdin

g th

e h

isto

rica

l, p

olit

ical

, so

cial

, an

d c

ult

ura

l co

her

ence

of

“Eu

rop

e”it

self.

At

the

very

lea

st i

t w

ou

ld a

llow

us

to b

egin

to

ske

tch

am

ore

exp

ansi

ve E

uro

pea

n h

isto

ry t

hat

no

t o

nly

in

clu

des

Wes

tern

(an

d s

e-le

ct a

reas

of

Cen

tral

) E

uro

pe

but

can

acc

om

mo

dat

e th

e B

alti

c st

ates

to

Bu

lgar

ia a

nd

bey

on

d (

to T

urk

ey).

A f

ocu

s o

n t

he

po

stw

ar p

olit

ics

of

dif

-fe

ren

ce w

ou

ld p

rovi

de

on

e u

sefu

l co

mp

arat

ive

fram

ewo

rk fo

r in

vest

igat

ing

soci

al fo

rmat

ion

s, s

oci

al c

lass

i‹ca

tio

ns,

so

cial

pra

ctic

es, s

oci

al u

nd

erst

and

-in

gs, a

nd

so

cial

rep

rese

nta

tio

ns

acro

ss th

e E

uro

pea

n c

on

tin

ent a

s a

who

le.6

9

To

cit

e a

con

tem

po

rary

exa

mp

le: G

erm

any

is n

ot

un

iqu

e in

str

ugg

ling

wit

h a

mo

re v

isib

le M

usl

im p

rese

nce

, wh

eth

er in

th

e as

sess

men

ts o

fm

ain

-st

ream

po

litic

ian

s, e

xper

ts, a

nd

med

ia c

over

age

or

in t

he

per

ceiv

ed a

nd

ac-

tual

so

cial

, po

litic

al, a

nd

rel

igio

us

pra

ctic

es a

nd

pre

scri

pti

on

s o

fE

uro

pea

nM

usl

ims.

70

Isn’

t th

e ch

alle

nge

at

the

mo

men

t h

ow t

o d

escr

ibe,

in

terp

ret,

rep

rese

nt,

an

d e

valu

ate

diff

eren

ce?

Wh

at, f

or

exam

ple

, do

es t

his

dif

fere

nce

mea

n f

or

de‹

nit

ion

s o

fE

uro

pe

in a

leg

al,

soci

al,

po

litic

al,

and

cu

ltu

ral

sen

se?

To

wh

at e

xten

t ar

e th

ese

con

cep

tio

ns

his

tori

cally

un

iqu

e? T

o w

hat

exte

nt

are

they

im

plic

ated

in

a l

on

ger

his

tory

of

raci

aliz

atio

n a

nd

eth

ni-

ciza

tio

n i

nte

nd

ed t

o p

rote

ct,

pre

serv

e, o

r p

rod

uce

sp

eci‹

c n

oti

on

s o

fn

a-ti

on

al o

r re

gio

nal

id

enti

ty i

n o

pp

osi

tio

n t

o g

rou

ps

jud

ged

to

be

dif

fere

nt

fro

m,

inas

sim

ilabl

e in

, o

r d

estr

uct

ive

of

tho

se v

isio

ns?

Wo

uld

we

lear

nso

met

hin

g by

co

nsi

der

ing

the

curr

ent

situ

atio

n i

n a

bro

ader

co

nce

ptu

alfr

ame

that

wo

uld

allo

w u

s to

co

mp

are

con

tem

po

rary

ass

essm

ents

of

“th

eM

usl

im p

robl

em”

wit

h d

iver

se E

uro

pea

n a

rtic

ula

tio

ns

of

“th

e Je

wis

h

28A

fter

th

e N

azi R

acia

l Sta

te

pro

blem

”ov

er t

he

cou

rse

of

the

nin

etee

nth

an

d t

wen

tiet

h c

entu

ries

?W

het

her

su

ch c

om

par

iso

ns

wo

uld

ult

imat

ely

emp

has

ize

po

ints

of

over

lap

or

div

erge

nce

is

som

eth

ing

we

wo

n’t

con

ject

ure

her

e. O

ur

sim

ple

po

int

isth

at s

uch

an

ap

pro

ach

wo

uld

at

leas

t p

rovi

de

a hi

stor

ical

con

tex

tin

wh

ich

to m

ake

sen

se o

fth

e co

nte

mp

ora

ry s

itu

atio

n. S

uch

a h

isto

rica

l per

spec

tive

wo

uld

per

mit

us

to r

ead

cu

rren

t co

nce

rns

in r

elat

ion

to

lon

ger

ideo

logi

cal

and

cu

ltu

ral

form

atio

ns

and

str

ateg

ies—

wh

eth

er n

atio

nal

, E

uro

pea

n,

or

tran

satl

anti

c in

sco

pe—

rega

rdin

g d

iffe

ren

ce.

Aft

er 1

945,

th

e p

olit

ics

of

dif

fere

nce

rem

ain

ed a

co

nst

itu

ent

par

t o

fth

e m

od

ern

nat

ion

, b

oth

in

Ger

man

y an

d i

nd

eed

th

rou

gho

ut

Eu

rop

e.R

ath

er t

han

be

con

sign

ed t

o t

he

mar

gin

aliz

ed s

ub

dis

cip

lines

of

min

ori

tyo

r (i

m)m

igra

tio

n s

tud

ies,

qu

esti

on

s o

fra

ce a

nd

dif

fere

nce

sh

ou

ld b

e m

ain

-st

ream

ed in

his

tori

cal i

nq

uir

y an

d r

ecog

niz

ed a

s ce

ntr

al t

o t

he

larg

er p

olit

-ic

al,

soci

al,

and

cu

ltu

ral

arti

cula

tio

n o

fn

atio

nal

an

d E

uro

pea

n i

den

titi

es,

inst

itu

tio

ns,

eco

no

mie

s, a

nd

so

ciet

ies.

On

ly t

hen

can

we

asse

ss t

he

his

tori

-ca

l lim

its,

›u

idit

y, a

nd

po

ssib

iliti

es o

fd

e‹n

ing

and

div

ersi

fyin

g b

oth

Ger

-m

any

and

Eu

rop

e.

Intr

oduc

tion

29

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No

tes

IN

TR

OD

UC

TIO

N

1.Je

re L

on

gman

, “S

urg

e in

Rac

ist

Mo

od

Rai

ses

Co

nce

rn o

n E

ve o

fW

orl

dC

up,

”N

ew Y

ork

Tim

es (

4 Ju

ne

2006

): 1

.2.

Wo

rld

-cu

p t

ou

rist

s w

ere

advi

sed

th

at c

erta

in p

arts

of

Po

tsd

am s

ho

uld

be

con

sid

ered

a “

no

-go

zo

ne,

”fo

r ex

amp

le.

3.F

or

an e

xpan

ded

dis

cuss

ion

, se

e ch

apte

r 4

in t

his

vo

lum

e. I

n m

akin

g th

isp

oin

t ab

ou

t h

ow G

erm

ans

hav

e u

nd

erst

oo

d—

and

th

e m

edia

has

rep

rese

nte

d—

the

geog

rap

hy o

fra

cism

aft

er u

ni‹

cati

on

, w

e ar

e n

ot

den

yin

g th

e ex

iste

nce

of

raci

stb

ias,

an

tago

nis

m, o

r vi

ole

nce

in e

aste

rn G

erm

any.

No

net

hel

ess,

it is

wo

rth

po

inti

ng

ou

t th

at w

hile

xen

op

ho

bic

an

d a

nti

sem

itic

vio

len

ce a

pp

ears

to

hav

e in

crea

sed

aft

er19

90 in

east

ern

Ger

man

y, it

was

in w

este

rn G

erm

an

y (

So

lin

gen

an

d M

öll

n)

that

the

ho

rri‹

c, l

eth

al

‹re

bo

mb

ings

of

Tu

rkis

h h

om

es o

ccu

rred

. (S

ee H

erm

an

n K

urt

hen

,

Wer

ner

Ber

gm

an

n,

an

d R

ain

er E

rb,

eds.

, A

ntis

emit

ism

and

Xen

opho

bia

in G

erm

any

afte

r U

ni‹

cati

on [

New

Yo

rk:

Oxfo

rd U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

, 19

97],

263–85,

for

an

ite

m-

ized

lis

t o

fri

gh

t-w

ing e

xtr

emis

t vio

len

ce a

gain

st p

rop

erty

an

d p

eop

le b

etw

een

1989

an

d

1994.

Wes

t G

erm

an

in

cid

ents

d

om

inate

th

e li

st.)

B

un

des

ver

fass

un

gss

-

chu

tzb

eric

hte

th

rou

gh

2006 h

ave

do

cum

ente

d c

rim

inal act

s o

fex

trem

e-ri

gh

t an

d/o

r

xen

op

ho

bic

vio

len

ce i

n b

oth

wes

tern

an

d e

ast

ern

Län

der

. In

2006,

in f

act

, w

este

rn

state

s to

pp

ed t

he

list

wit

h t

he

hig

hes

t n

um

ber

of

inci

den

ts p

er L

and

(146 i

n N

or-

drh

ein

-Wes

tfale

n a

nd

138 in

Nie

der

sach

sen

), a

lth

ou

gh

Sach

sen

-An

halt

(w

ith

111

in

-

cid

ents

) h

ad

th

e h

igh

est

per

-cap

ita “

po

liti

call

y m

oti

vate

d [

righ

t-w

ing]

crim

inali

ty”

wit

h

4.4

9

per

10

0,0

00

po

pu

lati

on

. R

epo

rts

of

the

geo

gra

ph

ic

dis

trib

uti

on

o

f

Gew

altt

äten

(vio

len

t cr

imes

) p

rovid

e n

um

ber

s o

nly

; th

ere

is n

o a

naly

sis

of

wh

eth

er

cert

ain

so

rts

of

crim

es a

re m

ore

hig

hly

rep

rese

nte

d i

n p

art

icu

lar

are

as.

Th

is m

ak

es

east

-wes

t co

mp

ari

son

s ch

all

engin

g w

ith

ou

t re

sort

to

oth

er f

orm

s o

fre

po

rtin

g.

Th

e

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fass

ungs

schu

tzbe

rich

te a

re

avail

able

o

nli

ne

at

htt

p:/

/ver

fass

un

gss

chu

tz.d

e/d

e/

pu

bli

kati

on

en (

last

acc

esse

d 2

3 M

ay 2

007).

Fo

r a g

oo

d o

ver

vie

w o

fG

erm

an

so

cial

scie

nti

sts’

ass

essm

ents

of

the

incr

ease

in

xen

op

ho

bia

, ri

gh

t-w

ing e

xtr

emis

m, an

d v

i-

ole

nce

am

on

g E

ast

Ger

man

yo

uth

aft

er 1

990 (

an

d f

or

som

e b

rief

ob

serv

ati

on

s o

n

the

role

of

the

med

ia i

n p

rop

agati

ng p

ub

lic

per

cep

tio

ns)

see

Ku

rth

en,

Ber

gm

an

n,

an

d E

rb,

eds.

, A

ntis

emit

ism

and

Xen

opho

bia.

Fo

r an

an

aly

sis

that

emp

hasi

zes

the

role

of

East

Ger

man

male

yo

uth

, se

e W

ilfr

ied

Sch

ub

art

h,

“X

eno

ph

ob

ia a

mo

ng

East

Ger

man

Yo

uth

,”in

th

at

vo

lum

e, 1

43–58.

Als

o P

eter

rste

r et

al.

, Ju

gend

Ost

:

183

Zw

isch

en H

off

nung u

nd G

ewalt

(O

pla

den

, 19

93);

Wo

lfgan

g M

elze

r, J

ugen

d u

nd P

oli

-

tik

in D

euts

chla

nd.

Ges

ells

chaft

lich

e E

inst

ellu

ng,

Zuk

unft

sori

enti

erungen

und R

echt-

sex

trem

ism

usp

ote

nti

al

Jugen

dli

cher

in O

st-

und W

estd

euts

chla

nd (

Op

lad

en,

1992);

Deu

tsch

es J

ugen

din

stit

ut,

Sch

ule

r an d

er S

chw

elle

zur

deu

tsch

en E

inhei

t (O

pla

den

,

1992);

Wil

frie

d S

chu

bart

h a

nd

Do

rit

Ste

nk

e, “

‘Au

slän

der

-bil

der

bei

ost

deu

tsch

en

Sch

üle

rin

nen

u

nd

S

chü

lern

”in

D

euts

chla

nd

Arc

hiv

12

(1

992):

12

47–54;

Gis

ela

Tro

mm

sdo

rfan

d H

an

s-Jo

ach

im K

orn

ad

t, “

Pro

soci

al

an

d A

nti

soci

al

Mo

tivati

on

of

Ad

ole

scen

ts i

n E

ast

an

d W

est

Ger

man

y,”

in A

fter

the

Wall

: F

am

ily A

dapta

tions

in E

ast

and W

est

Ger

many,

ed

. Ja

mes

Yo

un

iss,

30–56.

(San

Fra

nci

sco

: Jo

ssey

-Bass

,

1995);

Mer

edit

h W

att

s, X

enophobia

in U

nit

ed G

erm

any:

Gen

erati

ons,

Moder

niz

a-

tion,

and I

deo

logy (

New

Yo

rk:

St.

Mart

in’s

Pre

ss,

1997);

an

d R

ich

ard

Alb

a,

Pet

er

Sch

mid

t, a

nd

Mart

ina W

asm

er,

eds.

, G

erm

ans

or

Fore

igner

s? A

ttit

udes

Tow

ard

Eth

-

nic

M

inori

ties

in

P

ost

-Reu

ni‹

cati

on G

erm

any (

New

Y

ork

: P

alg

rave

Macm

illa

n,

2003).

On

East

Ger

man

exce

pti

on

ali

sm i

n G

erm

an

his

tori

ogra

phy,

see

Pau

l B

etts

an

d K

ath

erin

e P

ence

, “In

tro

du

ctio

n,”

in S

oci

ali

st M

oder

n:

East

Ger

man E

very

day

Cult

ure

and P

oli

tics

,ed

. P

au

l B

etts

an

d K

ath

erin

e P

ence

(A

nn

Arb

or:

Un

iver

sity

of

Mic

hig

an

Pre

ss,

2008),

1–34.

4.

Lo

ngm

an

, “S

urg

e in

Raci

st M

oo

d R

ais

es C

on

cern

on

Eve

of

Wo

rld

Cu

p,”

1, S

port

sSunday,

6.

5.

See

, fo

r ex

am

ple

, M

ich

ael

P.

Nik

ola

i, “

No

t E

mp

ty W

ord

s: G

erm

an

y I

s W

el-

com

ing t

he

Wo

rld

,”A

tlanti

c T

imes

3,

no

. 6 (

Jun

e 2006),

2.

6.

Dav

id G

old

ber

g,

Raci

st C

ult

ure

(O

xfo

rd:

Bla

ckw

ell,

1993),

91,

qu

ote

d i

n

Joh

n S

olo

mo

s an

d L

isa S

chu

ster

, “H

ate

Sp

eech

, V

iole

nce

, an

d C

on

tem

po

rary

Raci

sms,

”in

Euro

pe’

s N

ew R

aci

sm?

Cause

s, M

anif

esta

tions,

Solu

tions,

ed

. E

van

s

Fo

un

dati

on

(N

ew Y

ork

: B

ergh

ah

n B

oo

ks,

2002),

46–47.

7.

Geo

rge

M.

Fre

der

ick

son

, R

aci

sm:

A S

hort

His

tory

(P

rin

ceto

n:

Pri

nce

ton

Un

iver

sity

Pre

ss,

2002),

168,

men

tio

ns

the

“b

ifu

rcati

on

of

stu

die

s o

fw

hit

e su

-

pre

macy

an

d a

nti

sem

itis

m.”

Th

ou

gh

he

is r

efer

rin

g m

ost

ly t

o t

he

Am

eric

an

co

n-

text,

th

is h

old

s fo

r E

uro

pea

n s

cho

lars

hip

as

wel

l, a

s w

e d

iscu

ss l

ate

r. O

n t

he

po

st-

1945 s

oft

enin

g o

fJe

wis

hn

ess

fro

m r

ace

to

eth

nic

ity,

see

, fo

r ex

am

ple

, M

att

hew

Fry

e

Jaco

bse

n’s

Whit

enes

s of

a D

iffe

rent

Colo

r: E

uro

pea

n I

mm

igra

nts

and t

he

Alc

hem

y o

f

Race

(C

am

bri

dge:

Harv

ard

Un

iver

sity

Pre

ss,

1998).

8.

See

Eri

c W

eitz

’s u

sefu

l, b

rief

dis

cuss

ion

of

“et

hn

icit

y,”

“n

ati

on

ali

ty,”

an

d

“ra

ce”

in “

Raci

al P

oli

tics

wit

ho

ut

the

Co

nce

pt

of

Race

: R

eevalu

ati

ng S

ovie

t E

thn

ic

an

d N

ati

on

al

Pu

rges

,”in

Sla

vic

Rev

iew

61,

no

. 1

(Sp

rin

g 2

002):

1–29;

her

e, 6

–7.

9.

Geo

rge

M.

Fre

der

ick

son

, R

aci

sm:

A S

hort

His

tory

(P

rin

ceto

n:

Pri

nce

ton

Un

iver

sity

Pre

ss,

2002),

qu

ota

tio

ns

fro

m 1

55,

151;

mo

re g

ener

all

y, s

ee 1

40–55.

Als

o

Fre

der

ick

son

, T

he

Com

para

tive

Im

agin

ati

on:

On t

he

His

tory

of

Raci

sm,

Nati

onal-

ism

, and S

oci

al

Mov

emen

ts (

Ber

kel

ey:

Un

iver

sity

of

Cali

forn

ia P

ress

, 19

97),

esp

e-

ciall

y 7

7–83.

10.

On

th

e o

ther

han

d,

his

tori

an

s h

ave

exp

lore

d t

he

per

sist

ence

of

an

tise

mit

ism

aft

er 1

945.

Ho

wev

er,

thes

e in

ves

tigati

on

s h

ave

bee

n u

nco

up

led

fro

m d

iscu

ssio

ns

of

“ra

ce”—

an

an

aly

tica

l m

ove

that

call

s fo

r so

me

retr

osp

ecti

ve

his

tori

cal an

aly

sis.

See

chap

ter

4 i

n t

his

vo

lum

e; a

lso

Fra

nk

Ste

rn,

The

Whit

ewash

ing o

fth

e Y

ello

w B

adge:

Anti

sem

itis

m a

nd P

hil

ose

mit

ism

in P

ost

war

Ger

many,

tra

ns.

Wil

liam

Tem

ple

r (N

ew

184

No

tes

to P

ages

3–5

Page 18: Chin and Fehrenbach - After the Nazi Racial State (Introduction)

Yo

rk:

Per

gam

on

, 19

92);

Wo

lfga

ng

Ben

z, e

d.,

Ant

isem

itis

mus

in

Deu

tsch

land

: Z

urA

ktua

litä

t ei

nes

Vor

urte

ils

(Mu

nic

h:

Deu

tsch

er T

asch

enbu

ch V

erla

g, 1

995)

; an

dB

enz,

Jah

rbuc

h fü

r A

ntis

emit

ism

usfo

rsch

ung

(Mu

nic

h:

Deu

tsch

er T

asch

enbu

chV

erla

g),

the

‹rs

t an

nual

iss

ue

app

eare

d i

n 1

992;

Y.

Mic

hal

Bo

dem

ann

, Je

ws,

Ger

-m

ans,

Mem

ory:

Rec

onst

ruct

ions

of

Jew

ish

Lif

e in

Ger

man

y (A

nn

Arb

or:

Un

iver

sity

of

Mic

hig

an P

ress

, 199

6); J

effr

ey M

. Pec

k, B

eing

Jew

ish

in t

he N

ew G

erm

any

(New

Bru

nsw

ick

: R

utg

ers

Un

iver

sity

Pre

ss,

2006

); a

nd

th

e va

rio

us

pu

blic

atio

ns

by s

oci

-o

logi

sts

Wer

ner

Ber

gman

n a

nd

Rai

ner

Erb

, in

clu

din

g B

ergm

ann

an

d E

rb, e

ds.

, An-

tise

mit

ism

us i

n de

r po

liti

sche

n K

ultu

r na

ch 1

945

(Op

lad

en:

Wes

tdeu

tsch

er V

erla

g,19

90).

In a

ddit

ion

, so

me

soci

al a

ctiv

ists

an

d s

oci

al s

cien

tist

s h

ave

beg

un

to

ch

arac

-te

rize

vio

len

ce t

owar

d e

thn

ic m

ino

riti

es a

s “r

acis

m”

in c

on

tem

po

rary

Ger

man

y.S

ee,

for

exam

ple

, S

anem

Kle

ff,

Ed

ith

Bro

szin

sky-

Sch

wab

e, M

arie

-Th

ere

Alb

ert,

Hel

ga M

arbu

rger

, an

d M

arie

-Ele

no

ra K

arst

en,

BR

D-D

DR

. A

lte

und

neue

Ras

sis-

men

im

Zug

e de

r de

utsc

h-de

utsc

hen

Ein

igun

g (B

erlin

: V

erla

g fü

r In

terk

ult

ure

lleK

om

mu

nik

atio

n,

1990

); A

. K

alp

ak a

nd

N.

Rät

hze

l, ed

s.,

Die

Sch

wie

rigk

eit,

nic

htra

ssis

tisc

h zu

sei

n (L

eer:

Mu

nd

o V

erlig

, 19

90);

S.

Jäge

r, B

rand

Sät

ze-R

assi

smus

im

All

tag

(Du

isbu

rg:

Du

isbu

rger

In

stit

ut

für

Sp

rach

- u

nd

So

zial

fors

chu

ng,

199

3);

Nic

ola

Pip

er,

Rac

ism

, N

atio

nali

sm,

and

Cit

izen

ship

: E

thni

c M

inor

itie

s in

Bri

tain

and

Ger

man

y (B

roo

k‹

eld

, V

T:

Ash

gate

, 19

98),

33–

43;

Su

san

Arn

dt,

ed

., A

frik

a-B

ilde

r:

Stu

dien

zu

R

assi

smus

in

D

euts

chla

nd

(Mü

nst

er:

Un

rast

V

erla

g,

2001

);Je

rom

e S.

Leg

ge,

Jr.,

Jew

s, T

urks

, an

d O

ther

Str

ange

rs:

The

Roo

ts o

fP

reju

dice

in

Mod

ern

Ger

man

y (M

adis

on

: U

niv

ersi

ty o

fW

isco

nsi

n P

ress

, 20

03);

an

d H

elen

aF

lam

, ed

., M

igra

nten

in

Deu

tsch

land

. S

tati

stik

en-F

akte

n-D

isku

rse.

(C

on

stan

ce:

UV

K V

erla

gsge

sells

chaf

t, 2

007)

. F

or

a co

mp

arat

ive

dis

cuss

ion

on

Fra

nce

an

dB

rita

in, s

ee G

eoff

Ele

y’s

dis

cuss

ion

in c

hap

ter

5 o

fth

is v

olu

me.

11.

Ro

ber

t M

oel

ler,

“In

tro

du

ctio

n:

Wri

tin

g th

e H

isto

ry o

fW

est

Ger

man

y”in

Ro

ber

t M

oel

ler,

ed

., W

est

Ger

man

y un

der

Con

stru

ctio

n: P

olit

ics,

Soc

iety

, an

d C

ul-

ture

in

the

Ade

naue

r E

ra(A

nn

Arb

or:

Un

iver

sity

of

Mic

hig

an P

ress

, 19

97),

1–3

0;h

ere,

3–1

2.12

.H

eid

e F

ehre

nb

ach

, Rac

e af

ter

Hit

ler:

Bla

ck O

ccup

atio

n C

hild

ren

in P

ostw

arG

erm

any

and

Am

eric

a (P

rin

ceto

n: P

rin

ceto

n U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

, 200

5); A

tin

a G

ross

-m

ann

, Je

ws,

Ger

man

s, a

nd A

llie

s: C

lose

Enc

ount

ers

in O

ccup

ied

Ger

man

y (P

rin

ce-

ton

: P

rin

ceto

n U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

, 20

07);

Rit

a C

hin

, T

he G

uest

Wor

ker

Que

stio

n in

Pos

twar

Ger

man

y (C

amb

rid

ge: C

amb

rid

ge U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

, 200

7).

13.

Ara

s Ö

ren

, W

as w

ill

Niy

azi

in d

er N

auny

nstr

aße

(Ber

lin:

Ro

tbu

ch V

erla

g,19

73).

Fo

r an

an

alys

is o

ren’

s w

ork

s, s

ee C

hin

, The

Gue

st W

orke

r Q

uest

ion,

esp

e-ci

ally

ch

apte

r 1;

an

d L

eslie

A. A

del

son

, The

Tur

kish

Tur

n in

Con

tem

pora

ry G

erm

anL

iter

atur

e: T

owar

d a

New

Cri

tica

l G

ram

mar

of

Mig

rati

on(N

ew Y

ork

: P

algr

ave

Mac

mill

an,

2005

), c

hap

ter

3. T

he

sam

e ye

ar a

bo

ok

ch

ron

iclin

g th

e ex

per

ien

ce o

fB

lack

s in

Wes

t G

erm

any

app

eare

d, K

aren

Th

imm

an

d D

uR

ell E

cho

ls, S

chw

arze

inD

euts

chla

nd (

Mu

nic

h: P

roto

kolle

, 197

3).

14.

Kat

har

ina

Ogu

nto

ye,

May

Op

itz

(lat

er A

yim

), a

nd

Dag

mar

Sch

ult

z, F

arbe

beke

nnen

: af

ro-d

euts

che

Fra

uen

auf

den

Spu

ren

ihre

r G

esch

icht

e(B

erlin

: O

rlan

da

Ver

lag,

198

6),

tran

s. b

y A

nn

e V

. A

dam

s as

Sho

win

g O

ur C

olor

s: A

fro-

Ger

man

Wom

en S

peak

Out

(Am

her

st: U

niv

ersi

ty o

fM

assa

chu

sett

s P

ress

, 199

2), x

xi–x

xii.

Not

es t

o P

ages

5–8

185

15.

Zaf

er S

eno

cak

, A

tlas

des

tro

pisc

hen

Deu

tsch

land

s(B

erlin

: B

abel

, 19

92),

tran

s. b

y L

eslie

A. A

del

son

as

Atl

as o

fa

Tro

pica

l G

erm

any:

Ess

ays

on P

olit

ics

and

Cul

ture

, 199

0–19

98(L

inco

ln: U

niv

ersi

ty o

fN

ebra

ska

Pre

ss, 2

000)

, 1–2

. 16

.F

or

exam

ple

, P

eter

Wei

nga

rt,

Jürg

en K

roll,

an

d K

urt

Bay

ertz

, R

asse

, B

lut

und

Gen

e. G

esch

icht

e de

r E

ugen

ik u

nd R

asse

nhyg

iene

in D

euts

chla

nd (

Fra

nk

furt

am

Mai

n:

Su

hrk

amp,

198

8),

Pau

l W

ein

dlin

g, H

ealt

h, R

ace,

and

Nat

iona

l P

olit

ics

be-

twee

n N

atio

nal U

ni‹

cati

on a

nd N

azis

m, 1

870–

1945

(N

ew Y

ork

: Cam

bri

dge

Un

iver

-si

ty P

ress

, 19

89),

as

wel

l as

th

e re

cen

t w

ork

of

Fat

ima

El-

Tay

eb,

Lo

ra W

ilden

thal

,T

ina

Cam

pt,

Pas

cal

Gro

sse,

an

d I

sab

el H

ull,

am

on

g o

ther

s. O

n t

he

qu

esti

on

of

colo

nia

list

con

tinu

itie

s, s

ee B

irth

e K

un

dru

s, “

Ko

nti

nuit

äten

, P

aral

lele

n,

Rez

epti

o-

nen

. Ü

ber

legu

nge

n

zur

‘Ko

lon

isie

run

g’d

es

Nat

ion

also

zial

ism

us,

”W

erks

tatt

-G

esch

icht

e 43

(20

06):

45–

62.

17.

Cla

ud

ia K

oo

nz,

The

Naz

i C

onsc

ienc

e (C

amb

rid

ge: H

arva

rd B

elk

nap

Pre

ss,

2003

); S

tern

, Whi

tew

ashi

ng. H

ann

a S

chis

sler

, “In

tro

du

ctio

n,”

in T

he M

irac

le Y

ears

,ed

. H. S

chis

sler

(P

rin

ceto

n: P

rin

ceto

n U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

, 200

0).

18.

Uta

G. P

oig

er, J

azz,

Roc

k, a

nd R

ebel

s: C

old

War

Pol

itic

s an

d A

mer

ican

Cul

-tu

re i

n D

ivid

ed G

erm

any

(Ber

kele

y: U

niv

ersi

ty o

fC

alif

orn

ia P

ress

, 20

00);

als

oP

oig

er,

“Im

per

ialis

m a

nd

Em

pir

e in

Tw

enti

eth

-Cen

tury

Ger

man

y,”

His

tory

and

Mem

ory

(200

6);

Mar

ia H

öh

n,

GIs

and

Frä

ulei

ns:

Ger

man

-Am

eric

an E

ncou

nter

in

1950

s W

est

Ger

man

y (C

hap

el H

ill:

Un

iver

sity

of

No

rth

Car

olin

a P

ress

, 20

02);

Feh

ren

bac

h,

Rac

e af

ter

Hit

ler;

Gro

ssm

ann

, Je

ws,

Ger

man

, A

llie

s. O

ther

rec

ent

pu

blic

atio

ns

(no

t al

l by

his

tori

ans)

th

at d

evo

te s

om

e at

ten

tio

n t

o t

he

issu

e o

fd

if-

fere

nce

in p

ost

-194

5 G

erm

any

are

Rog

ers

Bru

bak

er, C

itiz

ensh

ip a

nd N

atio

nhoo

d in

Fra

nce

and

Ger

man

y (C

amb

rid

ge:

Har

vard

Un

iver

sity

Pre

ss,

1992

); T

ina

Cam

pt,

Pas

cal

Gro

sse,

an

d Y

ara-

Co

lett

e L

emke

-Mu

niz

de

Far

ia,

“Bla

cks,

Ger

man

s, a

nd

the

Po

litic

s o

fth

e Im

per

ial

Imag

inat

ion

, 19

20–1

960,

”T

he I

mpe

rial

ist

Imag

inat

ion:

Ger

man

Col

onia

lism

and

Its

Leg

acy,

ed

. S

ara

Fri

edri

chsm

eyer

, S

ara

Len

nox

, an

dS

usa

nn

e Z

anto

p (

An

n A

rbo

r: U

niv

ersi

ty o

fM

ich

igan

Pre

ss,

1998

), 2

05–2

9; P

atri

-ci

a M

azó

n a

nd

Rei

nh

ild S

tein

gröv

er, e

ds.

, Not

So

Pla

in a

s B

lack

and

Whi

te:

Afr

o-G

erm

an H

isto

ry a

nd C

ultu

re f

rom

189

0–20

00 (

Ro

ches

ter:

Un

iver

sity

of

Ro

ches

ter

Pre

ss, 2

005)

; Kat

rin

Sie

g, E

thni

c D

rag:

Per

form

ing

Rac

e, N

atio

n, S

exua

lity

in P

ost-

war

Ger

man

y (A

nn

Arb

or:

Un

iver

sity

of

Mic

hig

an P

ress

, 200

2); N

eil G

rego

r, N

ilsR

oem

er,

and

Mar

k R

ose

man

, G

erm

an H

isto

ry f

rom

the

Mar

gins

(B

loo

min

gto

n:

Un

iver

sity

of

Ind

ian

a P

ress

, 200

6).

19.

Y.

Mic

hel

Bo

dem

ann

an

d G

ök

ce Y

urd

aku

l, ed

s.,

Mig

rati

on,

Cit

izen

ship

,E

thos

(N

ew Y

ork

: Pal

grav

e M

acm

illan

, 200

6); C

hin

, The

Gue

st W

orke

r Q

uest

ion

inP

ostw

ar G

erm

any.

20.

In t

his

co

nn

ecti

on

, it

is

no

tabl

e th

at h

isto

rian

s o

fG

erm

any

hav

e n

ot

yet

pro

du

ced

a s

ynth

etic

inte

rpre

tati

on

of

the

role

of

dif

fere

nce

in t

he

dev

elo

pm

ent

of

the

Ger

man

nat

ion

co

mp

arab

le t

o J

aco

bse

n’s

Whi

tene

ss o

fa

Dif

fere

nt C

olor

,wh

ich

span

s fr

om

th

e in

cep

tio

n o

fth

e A

mer

ican

Rep

ubl

ic t

hro

ugh

th

e la

te t

wen

tiet

h c

en-

tury

. T

his

is

cert

ain

ly n

ot

du

e to

th

e p

auci

ty o

fm

igra

tio

n t

o G

erm

any

or

to t

hat

mo

der

n n

atio

n’s

nee

d t

o in

tegr

ate

min

ori

ty p

op

ula

tio

ns.

21.

Ger

man

His

tori

cal

Inst

itu

te D

atab

ase,

Ger

man

His

tory

in

Doc

umen

ts a

ndIm

ages

.“R

epo

rt o

fth

e D

istr

ict

Gov

ern

men

t o

fth

e P

russ

ian

Dis

tric

t o

fK

obl

enz

on

th

e Je

wis

h P

op

ula

tio

n,”

1820

. F

rom

Vo

rmär

z to

Pru

ssia

n D

om

inan

ce (

1815

186

No

tes

to P

ages

9–1

2

Page 19: Chin and Fehrenbach - After the Nazi Racial State (Introduction)

1866

): D

ocu

men

ts—

Gov

ern

men

t an

d A

dm

inis

trat

ion

: E

man

cip

atio

n o

fth

e Je

ws.

htt

p:/

/ger

man

his

tory

do

cs.g

hi-

dc.

org

/su

b_d

ocu

men

t.cf

m?d

ocu

men

t_id

=43

4 (a

c-ce

ssed

16

May

200

7).

22.

Rec

entl

y, h

isto

rian

s o

fG

erm

any

hav

e b

egu

n t

o r

eexa

min

e th

e ro

le o

fre

li-gi

on

, an

d t

hei

r as

sum

pti

on

s re

gard

ing

secu

lari

zati

on

, in

th

e co

nst

itu

tio

n o

fG

er-

man

mo

der

nit

y an

d t

he

nat

ion

. S

ee,

for

exam

ple

, R

udy

Ko

shar

, “T

he

His

tory

of

Ch

rist

ian

ity

Bey

on

d t

he

Res

idu

al”

H-N

et B

oo

k R

evie

w o

fS

her

idan

Gill

ey a

nd

Bri

an S

tan

ley,

ed

s., W

orld

Chr

isti

anit

ies,

c.

1815

–c.1

914.

Vo

l. 8.

Cam

bri

dge

His

tory

of

Ch

rist

ian

ity

(Cam

bri

dge

: C

amb

rid

ge

Un

iver

sity

P

ress

, 20

06)

and

H

ugh

McL

eod

, ed

., W

orld

Chr

isti

anit

ies,

c.

1914

–c.

2000

,vo

l. 9.

Cam

bri

dge

His

tory

of

Ch

rist

ian

ity.

(C

amb

rid

ge: C

amb

rid

ge U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

, 200

6), d

ated

Ju

ly 2

007.

23.

Fo

r an

ear

ly e

xam

ple

of

this

th

esis

, see

Fri

tz S

tern

, The

Pol

itic

s of

Cul

tura

lD

espa

ir:

A S

tudy

in t

he R

ise

ofG

erm

anic

Ide

olog

y(B

erke

ley:

Un

iver

sity

of

Cal

ifo

r-n

ia P

ress

, 19

74).

Mo

re r

ecen

t ex

amp

les

incl

ud

e P

hili

pp

e B

urr

in,

Naz

i A

nti-

Sem

i-ti

sm:

Fro

m P

reju

dice

to

the

Hol

ocau

st(N

ew Y

ork

: New

Pre

ss, 2

005)

, an

d S

hu

lam

itV

olk

ov, G

erm

ans,

Jew

s, a

nd A

ntis

emit

es:

Tri

als

in E

man

cipa

tion

(N

ew Y

ork

: Cam

-b

rid

ge U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

, 200

6).

24.

See

Art

. 3 o

fth

e W

est

Ger

man

Bas

ic L

aw (

Gru

ndge

setz

)an

d A

rts.

6 a

nd

11

of

the

Eas

t G

erm

an c

on

stit

uti

on

(V

erfa

ssun

g).

25.

Fo

r an

exp

and

ed d

iscu

ssio

n,

see

Ch

in,

The

Gue

st W

orke

r Q

uest

ion,

esp

e-ci

ally

ch

aps.

3–4

.26

.M

arti

n B

arke

r, T

he N

ew R

acis

m(L

on

do

n:

Jun

ctio

n B

oo

ks,

198

0);

Pau

lG

ilroy

, T

here

Ain

’t N

o B

lack

in

the

Uni

on J

ack;

and

Eti

enn

e B

alib

ar,

“Is

Th

ere

aN

eo-R

acis

m,”

in E

tien

ne

Bal

ibar

an

d I

mm

anu

el W

alle

rste

in, R

ace,

Nat

ion,

Cla

ss:

Am

bigu

ous

Iden

titi

es (

Lo

nd

on

: Ver

so, 1

991)

, 21–

23.

27.

Fo

r an

in

tere

stin

g d

iscu

ssio

n o

fh

isto

rica

l an

d c

ult

ura

l u

nd

erst

and

ings

in

-fo

rmin

g N

azi

po

licie

s in

so

rtin

g G

erm

ans

fro

m C

zech

s, i

n e

ffec

t d

ecid

ing

wh

o o

fth

e la

tter

wer

e “A

ryan

izab

le,”

see

Tar

a Z

ahra

, “Y

ou

r C

hild

Bel

on

gs t

o t

he

Nat

ion

:N

atio

nal

izat

ion

, G

erm

aniz

atio

n,

and

D

emo

crac

y in

th

e B

oh

emia

n

Lan

ds,

1900

–194

5”(d

oct

ora

l dis

s., U

niv

ersi

ty o

fM

ich

igan

, 200

5), 5

03ff

. 28

.H

ere

we

agre

e w

ith

Rog

ers

Bru

bak

er w

ho

has

arg

ued

, “E

thn

icit

y, r

ace,

an

dn

atio

n s

ho

uld

be

con

cep

tual

ized

no

t as

su

bst

ance

s o

r th

ings

or

enti

ties

or

org

an-

ism

s o

r co

llect

ive

ind

ivid

ual

s—as

th

e im

ager

y o

fd

iscr

ete,

co

ncr

ete,

tan

gibl

e,b

ou

nd

ed a

nd

en

du

rin

g ‘g

rou

ps’

enco

ura

ges

us

to d

o—

but

rath

er i

n r

elat

ion

al,

pro

cess

ual

, dy

nam

ic,

even

tfu

l, an

d d

isag

greg

ated

ter

ms.

Th

is m

ean

s th

ink

ing

of

eth

nic

ity,

rac

e, a

nd

nat

ion

no

t in

ter

ms

of

sub

stan

tial

gro

up

s o

r en

titi

es b

ut

inte

rms

of

pra

ctic

al c

ateg

ori

es,

situ

ated

act

ion

s, c

ult

ura

l id

iom

s, c

ogn

itiv

e sc

hem

as,

dis

curs

ive

fram

es, o

rgan

izat

ion

al r

ou

tes,

inst

itu

tio

nal

form

s, p

olit

ical

pro

ject

s, a

nd

con

tin

gen

t ev

ents

. It

mea

ns t

hink

ing

ofet

hnic

izat

ion,

rac

iali

zati

on, a

nd n

atio

nali

za-

tion

as

poli

tica

l, s

ocia

l, c

ultu

ral,

and

psy

chol

ogic

al p

roce

sses

. And

it m

eans

tak

ing

asa

basi

c an

alyt

ical

cat

egor

y no

t th

e ‘g

roup

’ as

an

enti

ty b

ut g

roup

ness

as

a co

ntex

tu-

ally

›uc

tuat

ing

conc

eptu

al v

aria

ble”

(em

ph

asis

add

ed).

Rog

ers

Bru

bak

er,

Eth

nici

tyw

itho

ut G

roup

s (C

amb

rid

ge: H

arva

rd U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

, 200

4), 1

1.29

.B

rub

aker

hel

pfu

lly a

rgu

es t

hat

“by

tre

atin

g et

hn

icit

y as

a w

ay o

fu

nd

er-

stan

din

g, in

terp

reti

ng,

an

d f

ram

ing

exp

erie

nce

, [co

gnit

ive]

per

spec

tive

s p

rovi

de

anal

tern

ativ

e to

su

bst

anti

alis

t o

r gr

ou

pis

t o

nto

logi

es.

Th

ey a

ffo

rd s

tro

ng

reas

on

s fo

r

Not

es t

o P

ages

12–

1418

7

trea

tin

g et

hn

icit

y, r

ace,

an

d n

atio

nal

ism

as

on

e d

om

ain

rat

her

th

an s

ever

al.”

Bru

bak

er, E

thni

city

wit

hout

Gro

ups,

86.

30.

Max

im S

ilver

man

, D

econ

stru

ctin

g th

e N

atio

n: I

mm

igra

tion

, R

acis

m,

and

Cit

izen

ship

in M

oder

n F

ranc

e(L

on

do

n: R

ou

tled

ge, 1

992)

, 129

0.31

.A

s B

rub

aker

pu

ts i

t, r

acia

l an

d e

thn

ic “

com

mo

n s

ense

”—“t

he

ten

den

cy t

op

arti

tio

n t

he

soci

al w

orl

d in

to p

uta

tive

ly d

eep

ly c

on

stit

ute

d, q

uas

i-n

atu

ral i

ntr

insi

ck

ind

s . .

.—is

a k

ey p

art

of

wh

at w

e w

ant

to e

xpla

in, n

ot

wh

at w

e w

ant

to e

xpla

inth

ings

wit

h; i

t b

elo

ngs

to

ou

r em

pir

ical

dat

a, n

ot

ou

r an

alyt

ical

to

olk

it.”

Bru

bak

er,

Eth

nici

ty w

itho

ut G

roup

s,9.

Bru

bak

er n

ote

s th

at “

‘Gro

up

nes

s’is

a v

aria

ble,

no

t a

con

stan

t”(4

).32

.B

rub

aker

, C

itiz

ensh

ip a

nd N

atio

nhoo

d;B

alib

ar a

nd

Wal

lers

tein

, R

ace,

Na-

tion

, C

lass

;A

. R

atts

ani

and

S.

Wes

two

od

, ed

s.,

Rac

ism

, M

oder

nity

, an

d Id

enti

ty(C

amb

rid

ge:

Po

lity

Pre

ss,

1994

); P

iper

, R

acis

m,

Nat

iona

lism

, an

d C

itiz

ensh

ip;

I.P

inn

an

d M

. Neb

elu

ng,

Vom

“kl

assi

chen

” zu

m a

ktue

llen

Ras

sism

us in

Deu

tsch

land

.D

as

Men

schen

bil

d d

er B

evölk

erungst

heo

rie

und B

evölk

erungpoli

tik

(Du

isbu

rg: D

uis

-bu

rger

In

stit

ut

für

Sp

rach

- u

nd

So

zial

fors

chu

ng,

199

2). H

. Gle

nn

Pen

ny a

nd

Mat

tiB

un

zl,

eds.

, W

orl

dly

Pro

vinci

ali

sm:

Ger

man A

nth

ropolo

gy i

n t

he

Age

of

Em

pir

e

(An

n A

rbo

r: U

niv

ersi

ty o

fM

ich

igan

Pre

ss,

2003

); F

atim

a E

l-T

ayeb

, S

chw

arz

e

Deu

tsch

e. D

er D

isk

urs

um

Rass

e und n

ati

onale

Iden

titä

t (F

ran

kfu

rt a

m M

ain

Cam

-p

us,

200

1); A

nd

rew

Zim

mer

man

, Anth

ropolo

gy a

nd A

nti

hum

anis

m i

n I

mper

ial

Ger

-

many (

Ch

icag

o: U

niv

ersi

ty o

fC

hic

ago

Pre

ss, 2

001)

; Isa

bel

l Hu

ll, A

bso

lute

Des

truc-

tion:

Mil

itary

C

ult

ure

and th

e P

ract

ices

of

War

in Im

per

ial

Ger

many (I

thac

a:C

orn

ell U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

, 200

4); R

ein

er P

om

mer

in, S

teri

lisi

erung d

er R

hei

nla

ndbas-

tard

e. D

as

Sch

ick

sal

einer

farb

igen

deu

tsch

en M

inder

hei

t 19

18–19

37(D

üss

eld

orf

:D

rost

e, 1

979)

; T

ina

Cam

pt,

Oth

er G

erm

ans:

Bla

ck G

erm

ans

and t

he

Poli

tics

of

Race

, G

ender

, and M

emory

in t

he

Thir

d R

eich

(A

nn

Arb

or:

Un

iver

sity

of

Mic

hig

anP

ress

, 200

3); M

azó

n a

nd

Ste

ingr

över

, ed

s., N

ot

So P

lain

as

Bla

ck a

nd W

hit

e;A

tin

aG

ross

man

n, R

eform

ing S

ex:

The

Ger

man M

ovem

ent

for

Bir

th C

ontr

ol and A

bort

ion

Ref

orm

, 19

20

–19

50 (

New

Yo

rk:

Oxf

ord

Un

iver

sity

Pre

ss,

1995

); M

ich

elle

Mo

uto

n,

Fro

m N

urt

uri

ng t

he

Nati

on t

o P

uri

fyin

g t

he

Volk

: W

eim

ar

and N

azi

Fam

ily P

oli

cy,

1918

–19

45

(New

Yo

rk:

Cam

bri

dge

Un

iver

sity

Pre

ss,

2007

); U

we

Mai

, “R

ass

e und

Raum

”:

Agra

rpoli

tik

, S

ozi

al-

und R

aum

pla

nung i

m N

S-S

taat

(Mu

nic

h: S

chö

nin

gh,

2002

); B

ayer

tz, R

ass

e, B

lut

und G

ene;

Rog

er B

artl

ett

and

Kar

en S

chö

nw

ald

er, e

ds.

,T

he

Ger

man L

ands

and E

ast

ern E

uro

pe

(New

Yo

rk:

St.

Mar

tin’

s P

ress

, 19

99);

Ed

-u

ard

hle

, ed

., G

erm

any a

nd t

he

Euro

pea

n E

ast

in t

he

Tw

enti

eth C

entu

ry (

New

Yo

rk:

Ber

g, 2

003)

; an

d K

rist

a O

’Do

nn

ell,

Ren

ate

Bri

den

thal

, an

d N

ancy

Rea

gin

,ed

s.,

The

Hei

mat

Abro

ad:

The

Boundari

es o

fG

erm

annes

s (A

nn

Arb

or:

Un

iver

sity

of

Mic

hig

an P

ress

, 200

5).

33.

Geo

rge

Fre

dri

ckso

n h

as n

ote

d t

hat

rac

ism

“is

alw

ays

nat

ion

ally

sp

eci‹

c. I

tin

vari

ably

bec

om

es e

nm

esh

ed w

ith

sea

rch

es fo

r n

atio

nal

iden

tity

an

d c

oh

esio

n t

hat

vary

wit

h t

he

his

tori

cal e

xper

ien

ce o

fth

e co

un

try.

”R

aci

sm,

75.

34.

Geo

rge

M. F

red

rick

son

has

sim

ilarl

y o

bse

rved

th

at it

“is

hig

h t

ime

that

his

-to

rian

s d

evo

ted

th

e sa

me

effo

rt t

o u

nd

erst

and

ing

‘rac

e’as

a t

ran

snat

ion

al s

oci

alan

d h

isto

rica

l ph

eno

men

on

th

at t

hey

hav

e so

met

imes

ap

plie

d t

o c

lass

, gen

der

, an

dn

atio

nal

ism

.”T

he

Com

para

tive

Im

agin

ati

on:

On t

he

His

tory

of

Raci

sm,

Nati

onal-

ism

, and S

oci

al

Mov

emen

ts (

Ber

kele

y: U

niv

ersi

ty o

fC

alif

orn

ia P

ress

, 199

7), 7

7.

188

No

tes

to P

ages

15–

17

Page 20: Chin and Fehrenbach - After the Nazi Racial State (Introduction)

35.

Ro

ber

t B

ern

asco

ni,

“Aft

er t

he

Inve

nti

on

of

Rac

e: R

acia

l Dis

cou

rse

in G

er-

man

y fr

om

Kan

t to

Nat

ion

al S

oci

alis

m,”

talk

pre

sen

ted

at “

Rem

app

ing

Bla

ck G

er-

man

y”co

nfe

ren

ce, U

niv

ersi

ty o

fM

assa

chu

sett

s, A

mh

erst

, 22

Ap

ril 2

006.

36.

Fo

r th

e G

erm

an c

on

text

, se

e th

e w

ork

of

Mic

hae

l K

ater

, D

iffe

rent

Dru

m-

mer

s: J

azz

in t

he C

ultu

re o

fN

azi

Ger

man

y (N

ew Y

ork

: O

xfo

rd U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

,19

92);

Uta

Po

iger

, Ja

zz,

Roc

k, a

nd R

ebel

s;K

atri

n S

ieg,

Eth

nic

Dra

g; a

nd

Dav

idC

iarl

o, “

Co

nsu

min

g R

ace,

Env

isio

nin

g E

mp

ire:

Co

lon

ialis

m a

nd

Ger

man

Mas

sC

ult

ure

, 18

87–1

914”

(do

cto

ral

dis

s.,

Un

iver

sity

of

Wis

con

sin

, M

adis

on

, 20

03),

amo

ng

oth

ers.

37.

See

, fo

r ex

amp

le,

Uta

G.

Po

iger

, “B

eau

ty,

Bu

sin

ess,

an

d G

erm

an I

nte

rna-

tio

nal

Rel

atio

ns,

”in

Wer

ksta

ttG

esch

icht

e 45

(20

07):

53–

71;

Aly

s W

ein

bau

m,

Lyn

nM

. T

ho

mas

, P

riti

Ram

amu

rthy

, U

ta G

. P

oig

er,

Mad

elei

ne

Yu

e D

on

g, a

nd

Tan

iB

arlo

w,

The

Mod

ern

Gir

l A

roun

d th

e W

orld

(D

urh

am:

Du

ke U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

,20

08);

an

d H

eid

e F

ehre

nb

ach

an

d U

ta G

. P

oig

er,

Tra

nsac

tion

s, T

rans

gres

sion

s,T

rans

form

atio

ns:

Am

eric

an C

ultu

re i

n W

este

rn E

urop

e an

d Ja

pan

(New

Yo

rk:

Ber

ghah

n B

oo

ks,

200

0).

38.

Jan

Gro

ss,

Fea

r: A

ntis

emit

ism

in

Pol

and

afte

r A

usch

wit

z (N

ew Y

ork

: R

an-

do

m H

ou

se, 2

007)

.39

.P

oig

er,

Jazz

, R

ock,

and

Reb

els;

Mari

a H

öh

n,

GIs

and

Frä

ulei

ns;

Hei

de

Feh

ren

bach

, R

ace

afte

r H

itle

r.40.

See

, fo

r ex

am

ple

, Y

ou

ng-S

un

Ho

ng,

“ ‘

Th

e B

ene‹

ts o

fH

ealt

h M

ust

Sp

read

am

on

g A

ll’:

In

tern

ati

on

al

So

lid

ari

ty,

Hea

lth

, an

d R

ace

in

th

e E

ast

Ger

man

En

-

cou

nte

r w

ith

th

e T

hir

d W

orl

d,”

in K

ath

erin

e P

ence

an

d P

au

l B

etts

, ed

s.,

Soc

iali

stM

oder

n: E

ast

Ger

man

Eve

ryda

y C

ultu

re a

nd P

olit

ics

(An

n A

rbo

r: U

niv

ersi

ty o

f

Mic

hig

an

Pre

ss,

2008),

183–210

.

41.

See

ch

ap

ter

4 i

n t

his

vo

lum

e. A

lso

Mart

in K

lim

ke,

“T

he

‘Oth

er’

All

ian

ce:

Glo

bal

Pro

test

an

d S

tud

ent

Un

rest

in

Wes

t G

erm

an

y a

nd

th

e U

.S.,

1962–19

72”

(do

cto

ral

dis

s.,

Un

iver

sitä

t H

eid

elb

erg,

2005),

an

d V

icto

r G

ross

man

n,

“T

he

GD

R

New

spap

er J

unge

Wel

tan

d S

oli

dari

ty w

ith

Afr

ican

-Am

eric

an

s (e

spec

iall

y i

n t

he

An

gel

a D

avis

case

),”

pap

er p

rese

nte

d a

t th

e 2006 G

erm

an

Stu

die

s A

sso

ciati

on

Mee

tin

g,

Pit

tsb

urg

h,

Oct

ob

er 2

006.

42.

hn

, G

Is a

nd F

räul

eins

; F

ehre

nb

ach

, R

ace

afte

r H

itle

r, e

sp.

chap

ter

1.

43.

Fra

nk

Ste

rn,

Whi

tew

ashi

ng;

Gro

ssm

an

n,

Jew

s, G

erm

ans,

and

All

ies.

Fo

r a

dis

cuss

ion

of

ho

w t

he

Nu

rem

ber

g T

rials

org

an

ized

kn

ow

led

ge

abo

ut

Nazi

cri

mes

an

d v

icti

ms,

see

Do

nald

Blo

xh

am

, G

enoc

ide

on T

rial

: W

ar C

rim

es T

rial

s an

d th

eF

orm

atio

n of

Hol

ocas

t H

isto

ry a

nd M

emor

y (N

ew Y

ork

: O

xfo

rd U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

,

2003).

44.

Die

thel

m P

row

e, “

Th

e ‘M

iracl

e’o

fth

e P

oli

tica

l-C

ult

ure

Sh

ift:

Dem

ocr

ati

-

zati

on

bet

wee

n A

mer

ican

izati

on

an

d C

on

serv

ati

ve

Rei

nte

gra

tio

n,”

in S

chis

sler

, ed

.,

The

Mir

acle

Yea

rs,4

51–

58;

her

e, 4

56.

Als

o S

tern

, W

hite

was

hing

.45.

Fo

r an

exp

an

ded

dis

cuss

ion

, se

e ch

ap

ter

4 i

n t

his

vo

lum

e.

46.

Dan

iel G

old

hagen

has

bee

n a

pro

min

ent,

if

con

tro

ver

sial,

pro

po

nen

t o

fth

is

vie

w.

Fo

r m

ore

nu

an

ced

ver

sio

ns

that

dis

cuss

pro

ble

ms

of

imm

igra

tio

n a

nd

“fo

r-

eign

nes

s,”

alt

ho

ugh

no

t q

ues

tio

ns

of

race

aft

er 1

945,

see

Ko

nra

d H

. Ja

rau

sch

an

d

Mic

hael

G

eyer

, S

hatt

ered

P

ast:

R

econ

stru

ctin

g G

erm

an

His

tori

es

(Pri

nce

ton

:

Pri

nce

ton

Un

iver

sity

Pre

ss,

2003),

esp

ecia

lly t

he

chap

ter

on

“re

de‹

nin

g n

ati

on

al

Not

es t

o P

ages

17–

2118

9

iden

titi

es,”

221–

44,

esp.

235–41;

als

o K

on

rad

H.

Jara

usc

h,

Aft

er H

itle

r: R

eciv

iliz

ing

Ger

man

s, 1

945–

1995

, tr

an

s.

Bra

nd

on

H

un

zik

er

(New

Y

ork

: O

xfo

rd

Un

iver

sity

Pre

ss,

2006).

47.

A n

ota

ble

exce

pti

on

is

Fla

m,

ed.,

Mig

rant

en in

Deu

tsch

land

.48.

Ro

ber

t G

. M

oel

ler,

“R

emem

ber

ing t

he

War

in a

Nati

on

of

Vic

tim

s: W

est

Ger

man

Past

s in

th

e 19

50s,

”in

Sch

issl

er,

ed.,

The

Mir

acle

Yea

rs,

83–10

9;

her

e,

86–87;

for

a m

ore

co

mp

reh

ensi

ve

dis

cuss

ion

see

R.

G.

Mo

elle

r, W

ar S

tori

es:

The

Sea

rch

for

a U

seab

le P

ast

in t

he F

eder

al R

epub

lic

ofG

erm

any

(Ber

kel

ey:

Un

iver

sity

of

Cali

forn

ia P

ress

, 19

99).

Als

o S

tern

, W

hite

was

hing

.49.

See

Geo

ffE

ley’s

dis

cuss

ion

in

ch

ap

ter

5.

50.

Fo

r a b

rief

, re

late

d d

iscu

ssio

n o

fw

het

her

th

e p

ost

-1945 r

ad

ical

righ

t sh

ou

ld

be

chara

cter

ized

as

“fa

scis

t,”se

e D

ieth

elm

Pro

we,

“T

he

Fasc

ist

Ph

an

tom

an

d A

nti

-

Imm

igra

nt

Vio

len

ce:

Th

e P

ow

er o

f(F

als

e) E

qu

ati

on

,”in

An

gel

ica F

enn

er a

nd

Eri

c

D. W

eitz

, F

asci

sm a

nd N

eofa

scis

m:

Cri

tica

l Wri

ting

s on

the

Rad

ical

Rig

ht in

Eur

ope

(New

Yo

rk:

Palg

rave

Macm

illa

n,

2004),

esp

ecia

lly 1

32–34.

51.

See

, fo

r ex

am

ple

, P

eter

Bet

hge,

“W

elch

en S

tan

d h

aben

au

slän

dis

che

Ar-

bei

ter

bei

un

s?”

Jung

e W

elt

(28 S

epte

mb

er 1

972)

in D

eniz

ktü

rk,

Dav

id G

ram

-

lin

g,

an

d A

nto

n K

aes

, ed

s.,

Ger

man

y in

Tra

nsit

: N

atio

n an

d M

igra

tion

, 19

55–2

005

(Ber

kel

ey:

Un

iver

sity

of

Cali

forn

ia P

ress

, 2007).

52.

Ati

na G

ross

man

n,

“A Q

ues

tio

n o

fS

ilen

ce,”

in R

ob

ert

G.

Mo

elle

r, W

est

Ger

man

y un

der

Con

stru

ctio

n (A

nn

Arb

or:

Un

iver

sity

of

Mic

hig

an

Pre

ss,

1997);

No

rman

Naim

ark

, R

ussi

ans

in G

erm

any:

A H

isto

ry o

fth

e S

ovie

t Z

one

ofO

ccup

a-ti

on, 1

945–

1949

(C

am

bri

dge:

Harv

ard

Bel

kn

ap

Pre

ss, 19

95),

ch

ap. 2; W

. K

ari

n H

all

,

“H

um

an

ity o

r H

egem

on

y:

Orp

han

s, A

ban

do

ned

Ch

ild

ren

, an

d t

he

So

vie

tiza

tio

n

of

the

Yo

uth

Wel

fare

Syst

em in

Mec

kle

nb

erg, G

erm

an

y, 1

945–19

52”

(do

cto

ral d

iss.

,

Sta

nfo

rd U

niv

ersi

ty, 19

98);

Jef

frey

Her

f, D

ivid

ed M

emor

y: T

he N

azi P

ast

in t

he T

wo

Ger

man

ies

(Cam

bri

dge,

1996).

53.

Her

man

n

W.

Sch

ön

mei

er,

ed.,

P

rüfu

ng

der

Mög

lich

keit

en

eine

sF

achk

räft

epro

gram

ms

Mos

ambi

k(S

aarb

ruck

en:

Ver

lag B

reit

enb

ach

, 19

91)

; E

va-

Mari

a E

lsn

er an

d L

oth

ar

Els

ner

, A

uslä

nder

und

Aus

länd

erpo

liti

k in

der

DD

R(B

erli

n:

Ges

ells

chaft

swis

sen

sch

aft

lich

es

Fo

rum

, 19

92);

E

va-M

ari

a

Els

ner

an

d

Lo

thar

Els

ner

, Z

wis

chen

Nat

iona

lism

us u

nd I

nter

nati

onal

ism

us:

Übe

r A

uslä

nder

und

Aus

länd

erpo

liti

k in

de

r D

DR

19

49–1

990

(Ro

sto

ck:

No

rdd

euts

cher

Ho

chsc

hu

lsch

rift

en V

erla

g,

1994);

Jan

C.

Beh

ren

ds,

Th

om

as

Lin

den

ber

ger

, an

d

Patr

ice

G.

Po

utr

us,

ed

s.,

Fre

mde

und

Fre

md-

Sei

n in

der

DD

R:

zu h

isto

risc

hen

Ur-

sach

en d

er F

rem

denf

eind

lich

keit

in

Ost

deut

schl

and

(Ber

lin

: M

etro

po

l, 2

003);

Eva

Ko

lin

sky,

“M

ean

ings

of

Mig

rati

on

in

E

ast

G

erm

an

y

an

d

the

Wes

t G

erm

an

Mo

del

,”in

Mik

e D

enn

is a

nd

Eva K

oli

nsk

y, e

ds.

, U

nite

d an

d D

ivid

ed:

Ger

man

ysi

nce

1990

(N

ew Y

ork

: B

ergh

ah

n B

oo

ks,

2004),

14

5–75;

Ch

rist

ian

M

üll

er an

d

Patr

ice

G.

Po

utr

us,

ed

s.,

Ank

unft

, A

llta

g, A

usre

ise:

Mig

rati

on u

nd i

nter

kult

urel

leB

egeg

nung

in d

er D

DR

-Ges

ells

chaf

t(C

olo

gn

e: B

öh

lau

, 2005);

ktü

rk,

Gra

mli

ng,

an

d K

aes

, ed

s.,

Ger

man

y in

Tra

nsit

,esp

ecia

lly c

hap

ter

2;

an

d H

on

g,

“‘T

he

Ben

e‹ts

of

Hea

lth

.’”

54.

Jon

ath

an

Zatl

in i

s a r

ecen

t ex

cep

tio

n;

see

his

“S

carc

ity a

nd

Res

entm

ent:

Eco

no

mic

So

urc

es o

fX

eno

ph

ob

ia i

n t

he

GD

R,

1971–

1989,”

in C

entr

al E

urop

ean

His

tory

40, n

o. 4 (

Dec

emb

er 2

007):

683–720, w

hic

h a

pp

eare

d a

fter

th

is in

tro

du

ctio

n

190

No

tes

to P

ages

21–

25

Page 21: Chin and Fehrenbach - After the Nazi Racial State (Introduction)

was

au

tho

red

. V

icto

ria

de

Gra

zia’

s m

agis

teri

al I

rres

isti

ble

Em

pire

: A

mer

ica’

s A

d-va

nce

thro

ugh

Tw

enti

eth

Cen

tury

Eur

ope

(Cam

bri

dge

: H

arva

rd U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

,20

05)

do

es n

ot

con

sid

er t

he

role

of

fore

ign

lab

or.

55.

A n

ota

ble

rece

nt

exce

pti

on

is R

ita

Ch

in, T

he G

uest

Wor

ker

Que

stio

n.56

.S

ee G

ross

, F

ear;

Josh

ua

D.

Zim

mer

man

, ed

., C

onte

sted

Mem

orie

s: P

oles

and

Jew

s du

ring

the

Hol

ocau

st a

nd I

ts A

fter

mat

h (N

ew B

run

swic

k: R

utg

ers

Un

iver

-si

ty P

ress

, 20

03);

Peg

gy P

iesc

he,

et

al.,

Myt

hen,

Mas

ke,

und

Sub

jekt

e: K

riti

sche

Wei

ßsei

nsfo

rsch

ung

in D

euts

chla

nd (

nst

er: U

nra

st, 2

006)

. Sin

ce 2

005,

th

e B

lack

Eu

rop

ean

Stu

die

s In

itia

tive

(BE

ST

) has

beg

un

to h

old

a s

erie

s o

fin

tern

atio

nal

co

n-

fere

nce

s.57

.B

rub

aker

, Eth

nici

ty W

itho

ut G

roup

s,11

.58

.F

ive

mill

ion

Sla

vs w

ere

forc

ibly

tran

sfer

red

to th

e G

erm

an R

eich

as

slav

e la

-b

or

by t

he

Ger

man

mili

tary

; th

ou

san

ds

of

eth

nic

Ger

man

s se

ttle

d i

n w

este

rnP

ola

nd

an

d o

ther

Eas

tern

Eu

rop

ean

ter

rito

ries

; Jew

s w

ere

tran

spo

rted

by

the

mil-

lion

s to

gh

etto

s an

d c

on

cen

trat

ion

an

d d

eath

cam

ps,

lead

ing

to s

ix m

illio

n d

eath

s.In

add

itio

n, b

egin

nin

g in

193

9, w

ith

th

e d

ivis

ion

of

Po

lan

d b

etw

een

Naz

i Ger

man

yan

d t

he

US

SR

, S

ovie

t tr

oo

ps

dep

ort

ed 1

.5 m

illio

n p

eop

le f

rom

Po

lan

d,

incl

ud

ing

600,

000

Po

les,

as

slav

e la

bo

r to

Sib

eria

, Sov

iet

Cen

tral

Asi

a, a

nd

th

e S

ovei

t A

rcti

c,a

ten

th o

fw

ho

m d

ied

. A

fu

rth

er 3

0,00

0 P

ole

s w

ere

sho

t in

Po

lan

d.

See

Mar

kK

ram

er, “

Intr

od

uct

ion

,”R

edra

win

g N

atio

ns:

Eth

nic

Cle

ansi

ng i

n E

ast-

Cen

tral

Eu-

rope

, 194

4–19

48, e

d. P

hili

pp

Th

er a

nd

An

a S

iljak

(Lan

ham

, MD

: Row

man

an

d L

it-

tle‹

eld

, 200

1), 3

, 5. A

lso

Ulr

ich

Her

ber

t, H

itle

r’s

For

eign

Wor

kers

: E

nfor

ced

For

eign

Lab

or i

n G

erm

any

unde

r th

e T

hird

Rei

ch,

tran

s. W

illia

m T

emp

ler

(Cam

bri

dge

:C

amb

rid

ge U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

, 19

97);

Mar

k S

po

erer

, Z

wan

gsar

beit

unt

er d

em H

ak-

enkr

euz.

Aus

länd

isch

e Z

ivil

arbe

iter

, K

rieg

sgef

ange

ne u

nd H

äftl

inge

im

Deu

tsch

enR

eich

und

im

bes

etzt

en E

urop

a 19

39–1

945

(Stu

ttga

rt:

Deu

tsch

e V

erla

gs-A

nh

alt,

2001

); E

lizab

eth

Har

vey,

Wom

en a

nd t

he N

azi

Eas

t: A

gent

s an

d W

itne

sses

of

Ger

-m

aniz

atio

n (N

ew H

aven

: Yal

e U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

, 200

3); W

olf

gan

g Ja

cob

mey

er, V

omZ

wan

gsar

beit

er z

um H

eim

atlo

sen

Aus

länd

er:

die

Dis

plac

ed P

erso

ns i

n W

estd

euts

ch-

land

(G

ött

ingen

: V

an

den

ho

eck

un

d R

up

rech

t, 1

985);

Eu

gen

Lem

ber

g a

nd

Fri

edri

ch

Ed

din

g, D

ie V

ertr

iebe

nen

in W

estd

euts

chla

nd. I

hre

Ein

glie

deru

ng u

nd ih

r E

in›

uss

auf

Ges

ells

chaf

t, W

irts

chaf

t, P

olit

ik u

nd G

eist

esle

ben

(Kie

l: H

irt,

1959).

59.

Th

e gro

up

s aff

ecte

d w

ere

Ch

ech

ens,

In

gu

sh,

Kalm

yk

s, M

esk

het

ian

Tu

rks,

Kara

chais

, B

ash

kir

s,

Balk

ars

, V

olg

a

Ger

man

s,

an

d

Cri

mea

n

Tata

rs.

Fo

r an

over

vie

w o

fet

hn

ic c

lean

sin

g i

n E

ast

ern

Eu

rop

e, s

ee K

ram

er,

“In

tro

du

ctio

n,”

4–21;

her

e, 4

, 15

.

60.

Th

ose

aff

ecte

d w

ere

Gre

eks,

Bu

lgars

, K

urd

s, K

hem

shil

s, K

abard

ines

, P

ole

s,

Fin

ns,

Mo

ldav

ian

s, A

rmen

ian

s, L

ith

uan

ian

s, L

atv

ian

s, a

nd

Est

on

ian

s. K

ram

er,

“In

tro

du

ctio

n,”

4.

61.

Sp

eech

on

Po

lan

d,

15 D

ecem

ber

1944.

Qu

ote

d i

n K

ram

er,

“In

tro

du

ctio

n,”

6–7. 62.

See

Kra

mer

, “In

tro

du

ctio

n,”

17.

63.

See

th

e ex

cell

ent

essa

ys

in T

her

an

d S

ilja

k,

eds.

, R

edra

win

g N

atio

ns. F

or

the

exp

uls

ion

o

fG

erm

an

s fr

om

C

zech

osl

ovak

ia,

see

Eagle

G

lass

hei

m,

“N

ati

on

al

Myth

olo

gie

s an

d E

thn

ic C

lean

sin

g:

Th

e E

xp

uls

ion

of

Cze

cho

slo

vak

Ger

man

s af-

ter

1945,”

Cen

tral

Eur

opea

n H

isto

ry 3

3,

no

. 4 (

2000):

463–86.

Not

es t

o P

ages

25–

2619

1

64.

It m

igh

t b

e u

sefu

l to

ask

if

the

po

stw

ar

po

liti

cs o

fet

hn

ic c

lean

sin

g i

n E

u-

rop

e ‹

ts t

he

des

crip

tio

n o

f“d

iffe

ren

tiali

st r

aci

sm,”

wh

ich

Eti

enn

e B

ali

bar

de‹

nes

as

on

e “w

ho

se d

om

inan

t th

eme

is n

ot

bio

logic

al

her

edit

y b

ut

the

insu

rmo

un

tab

il-

ity o

fcu

ltu

ral

dif

fere

nce

s, a

raci

sm w

hic

h,

at

‹rs

t si

gh

t, d

oes

no

t p

ost

ula

te t

he

su-

per

iori

ty o

fce

rtain

gro

up

s o

r p

eop

les

in r

elati

on

to

oth

ers

bu

t ‘o

nly

’th

e h

arm

ful-

nes

s o

fab

oli

shin

g

fro

nti

ers,

th

e in

com

pati

bil

ity

of

life

-sty

les

an

d

trad

itio

ns.

Eti

enn

e B

ali

bar

an

d I

mm

an

uel

Wall

erst

ein

, R

ace,

Nat

ion,

Cla

ss,2

1.

65.

Fo

r th

e b

egin

nin

gs

of

a h

isto

rio

gra

phy o

n t

his

qu

esti

on

fo

r P

ola

nd

an

d e

ast

-

ern

Eu

rop

e, s

ee G

ross

, F

ear;

Ro

ber

t B

lob

au

m,

ed.,

Ant

isem

itis

m a

nd I

ts O

ppon

ents

in M

oder

n P

olan

d (I

thaca

: C

orn

ell

Un

iver

sity

Pre

ss,

2005);

Tim

oth

y S

nyd

er,

The

Rec

onst

ruct

ion

ofN

atio

ns:

Pol

and,

Ukr

aine

, L

ithu

ania

, B

elar

us,

1569

–199

9 (N

ew

Hav

en: Y

ale

Un

iver

sity

Pre

ss, 2003);

an

d O

mer

Bart

ov,

Era

sed:

Van

ishi

ng T

race

s of

Jew

ish

Gal

icia

in

Pre

sent

-Day

Ukr

aine

(P

rin

ceto

n:

Pri

nce

ton

U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

,

2007).

Pad

raic

Ken

ney

dis

cuss

es t

he

‹rs

t tw

o o

fth

ese

bo

ok

s in

an

ill

um

inati

ng

over

vie

w o

fre

cen

t h

isto

rio

gra

phy o

n m

od

ern

Po

lan

d,

“Aft

er t

he

Bla

nk

Sp

ots

are

Fil

led

: R

ecen

t P

ersp

ecti

ves

on

Mo

der

n P

ola

nd

”in

Jou

rnal

of

Mod

ern

His

tory

79

(Marc

h 2

007):

134–61.

In

his

ess

ay K

enn

ey o

bse

rves

ho

w t

he

wri

tin

g o

fP

oli

sh h

is-

tory

rem

ain

s gro

un

ded

in

un

exam

ined

eth

nic

id

enti

‹ca

tio

n.

Wh

ile

his

tori

ogra

phy

on

Po

lan

d i

s in

crea

sin

gly

co

nce

rned

wit

h i

ssu

es o

fd

iffe

ren

ce a

nd

nati

on

over

th

e

lon

gu

e d

uré

e—se

e, f

or

exam

ple

, th

e re

cen

t b

oo

k b

y J

oan

na B

eata

Mic

hli

c, P

olan

d’s

Thr

eate

ning

Oth

er:

The

Im

age

ofth

e Je

w f

rom

188

0 to

the

Pre

sent

(L

inco

ln:

Un

i-

ver

sity

of

Neb

rask

a P

ress

, 2006)—

it s

till

lack

s a s

yst

emati

c fo

cus

on

eth

nic

iza-

tio

n/r

aci

ali

zati

on

as

a b

road

er s

oci

al

an

d c

ult

ura

l p

roce

ss a

fter

1945.

On

th

e ex

pu

l-

sio

n o

fet

hn

ic G

erm

an

s fr

om

cen

tral

an

d e

ast

ern

Eu

rop

e an

d t

he

Yu

go

slav

wars

,

see

No

rman

Naim

ark

, F

ires

of

Hat

red:

Eth

nic

Cle

ansi

ng in

Tw

enti

eth-

Cen

tury

Eu-

rope

(C

am

bri

dge:

Harv

ard

Un

iver

sity

Pre

ss,

2001)

. A

lso

Pet

er G

atr

ell,

“In

tro

du

c-

tio

n:

Wo

rld

Wars

an

d P

op

ula

tio

n D

isp

lace

men

t in

Eu

rop

e in

th

e T

wen

tiet

h C

en-

tury

,”an

d G

atr

ell,

“D

isp

laci

ng a

nd

Re-

Pla

cin

g P

op

ula

tio

n in

th

e T

wo

Wo

rld

Wars

:

Arm

enia

an

d P

ola

nd

Co

mp

are

d,”

in C

onte

mpo

rary

Eur

opea

n H

isto

ry 1

6,

no

. 4

(2007):

415

–26,

511

–27.

66.

Hei

de

Feh

ren

bach

, “W

ar

Orp

han

s an

d P

ost

fasc

ist

Fam

ilie

s: K

insh

ip a

nd

Bel

on

gin

g a

fter

1945,”

in F

ran

k B

iess

an

d R

ob

ert

Mo

elle

r, e

ds.

, H

isto

ries

of

the

Af-

term

ath:

The

Leg

acie

s of

Wor

ld W

ar I

I in

Com

para

tive

Eur

opea

n P

ersp

ecti

ve (

New

Yo

rk:

Ber

gh

ah

n B

oo

ks,

fo

rth

com

ing 2

009).

Als

o K

jers

ti E

rics

son

an

d E

va S

imo

n-

sen

, ed

s.,

Chi

ldre

n of

Wor

ld W

ar I

I: T

he H

idde

n E

nem

y L

egac

y (N

ew Y

ork

: B

erg,

2005);

Dia

ne

L. W

olf

, B

eyon

d A

nne

Fra

nk:

Hid

den

Chi

ldre

n an

d P

ostw

ar F

amil

ies

inH

olla

nd (

Ber

kel

ey:

Un

iver

sity

of

Cali

forn

ia P

ress

, 2007);

an

d T

ara

Zah

ra,

“L

ost

Ch

ild

ren

: D

isp

lace

d F

am

ilie

s an

d t

he

Reh

abil

itati

on

of

Po

stw

ar

Eu

rop

e,”

in J

our-

nal o

fM

oder

n H

isto

ry81,

no

. 1

(Marc

h 2

009).

67.

Exam

ple

s o

fre

cen

t sc

ho

lars

hip

are

Kath

leen

Pau

l, W

hite

was

hing

Bri

tain

:R

ace

and

Cit

izen

ship

in

the

Pos

twar

Era

(It

haca

: C

orn

ell

Un

iver

sity

Pre

ss,

1997);

Ale

c G

. H

arg

reav

es a

nd

Mark

McK

inn

ey,

eds.

, P

ost-

Col

onia

l C

ultu

res

in F

ranc

e(N

ew Y

ork

: R

ou

tled

ge,

1997);

Mau

d S

. M

an

del

, In

the

Aft

erm

ath

ofG

enoc

ide:

Ar-

men

ians

and

Jew

s in

Tw

enti

eth

Cen

tury

Fra

nce

(Du

rham

: D

uk

e U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

,

2003);

P

au

l A

. S

ilver

stei

n,

Alg

eria

in

Fra

nce:

Tra

nspo

liti

cs,

Rac

e, a

nd N

atio

n(B

loo

min

gto

n:

Ind

ian

a U

niv

ersi

ty P

ress

, 2004);

Her

man

Leb

ovic

s, B

ring

ing

the

192

No

tes

to P

ages

26–28

Page 22: Chin and Fehrenbach - After the Nazi Racial State (Introduction)

Em

pire

Bac

k H

ome:

Fra

nce

in t

he G

loba

l A

ge (

Du

rham

: D

uke

Un

iver

sity

Pre

ss,

2004

); D

avid

Ber

iss,

Bla

ck S

kins

, F

renc

h V

oice

s: C

arib

bean

Eth

nici

ty a

nd A

ctiv

ism

in U

rban

Fra

nce

(Bo

uld

er:

Wes

tvie

w P

ress

, 20

04);

To

dd S

hep

ard

, T

he I

nven

tion

of

Dec

olon

izat

ion:

The

Alg

eria

n W

ar a

nd t

he R

emak

ing

ofF

ranc

e (I

thac

a: C

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