Between the Death Camps and the Flag
Subtitle: Youth Voyages to Poland and the Construction of Israeli National Identity
Publisher: Berghahn Books; Berghahn
Published: January 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781845453626
Subjects: Jewish studies; The Holocaust; Israel; Poland; Anthropology - General; Social Science; Sociology
Description: "In the "Moscow Declaration" of 1943 the Allies officially propagated the notion of Austria as the first victim of Hitlerite aggression and announced their intention to set up a "free and independent Austria" after the war, which finally happened in 1955. By questioning why it took so long to get to this point, the author addresses issues such as the victim thesis, Austrians as perpetrators, Austrian anti-Semitism and official attempts to mitigate its effects after the war. He discusses the various proposals for post-war Austria and connects for the first time the issues of Anschluss, German question, Cold War, and the State Treaty. He makes it clear that the question of Austria was from the very beginning inextricably linked with the more important question of Germany."--BOOK JACKET.