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In May 1933, the so-called Bernheim petition was submitted to the League of Nations in Geneva on behalf of the Paris Comité des Délégations Juives. With it, the disenfranchisement of German Jews by National Socialist Germany was charged under international law. It caused all anti-Jewish laws in Upper Silesia to be suspended by 1937. This complaint, its genesis and its astonishing consequences from today's point of view have largely been forgotten, as has Jewish minority diplomacy as a whole or its individual representatives, e.g. Leo Motzkin, Emil Margulies or Nathan Feinberg. Philipp Graf examines the petition in the context of the general minority problems of the interwar period gives insights into the practice of non-governmental Jewish interest representation.

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Current controversies about the "singularity of the Holocaust" often overlook the fact that it took some time after 1945 for the murder of European Jews to penetrate the consciousness of European societies. This anthology investigates the reasons for this by presenting the memory history of the Holocaust with the political history and history of ideas of the Cold War. The German and English-language contributions do not simply trace the belated history of reception or the official culture of remembrance in various European countries. Rather, they focus on the question of the latent effect of the event, which was essentially determined by national peculiarities, and approach these country-specific constellations via paradigmatic biographies of the political left.The volume thus not only offers an innovative approach to the historicization of the 1950s and 1960s, but also achieves one Contribution to the current discussion about the possibility of a multi-perspective memory.

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