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Good Germans is an ironic term — usually placed between single quotes such as 'Good Germans' — referring to German citizens during and after World War II who claimed not to have supported the Nazi regime, but remained silent and did not resist in a meaningful way.[1][2] The term is further used to describe those who claimed ignorance of the Holocaust and German war crimes[3]
Pól Ó Dochartaigh and Christiane Schönfeld state in non-ironic way: "After the division of Germany in 1949, finding “good Germans” whose record helped legitimize each of the new German states became a core aspect of building a new nation in Germany and of the propaganda battle in this respect between the two German states."[4]
See also
- German collective guilt
- Italiani brava gente
- Résistancialisme
- Responsibility for the Holocaust
- The Good German – a 2006 Steven Soderbergh film
- Wehrkraftzersetzung
- Good Russian
Citations
- ^ Frank Richoct, "The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us", New York Times, (October 14, 2007).
- ^ [], Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, p. 17
- ^ [], Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, p. 17
- ^ Ó Dochartaigh, Pól; Schönfeld, Christiane (2013). "Introduction: Finding the 'Good German'". Representing the Good German in Literature and Culture After 1945: Altruism and Moral Ambiguity. Camden House. ISBN 9781571134981.
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