Lecture and discussion with PD Dr. Sebastian Voigt
A cooperative event with the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Max Samuel House e.V.
The GDR described itself as an anti-fascist state. But what exactly did this mean? What definition of fascism was this claim based on, and what role did anti-Semitism play in this?
In his lecture, Dr. Sebastian Voigt explores these questions and sheds light on how National Socialism, fascism and the murder of Jews were discussed in the GDR - and also where topics were ignored, relativized or weighted differently than in the Federal Republic. In doing so, he takes a look at how the Shoah was dealt with in terms of remembrance policy, including the tensions between anti-fascist claims and real anti-Semitism.
These aspects are placed in the long history of Jew-hatred, which begins long before National Socialism
Nazism: from ancient anti-Judaism to Christian hatred of Jews in the Middle Ages to the bourgeois-political
anti-Semitism of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Admission is free.
